Looking forward to this, always a highlight of any year. We'll be walking the 150 miles from Sheffield to London (partly to save on train fares), with scheduled stops in Castle Donington, Market Harborough and Leighton Buzzard, where you can buy books from our improvised roadside stall.
💚 heart co-editing intergraphia with @rachelartsmith.bsky.social. We'll be at Conway Hall in the heart of Bloomsbury for this year's amazing @smallpublishers.bsky.social on the 24 & 25 October. Come say hello!
small/not so small formations/movements
Moving sale.
I'm in the studio going through some things and as the title suggests, hopefully we're moving house, all being well with the sale of our house. Not moving far, over the hill in fact but a whole different landscape . At the new place there is currently no studio so I'm trying to…
a letter bud, from the meadow.
"maybe" a cloudywing moth, perhaps affected by a cordyceps fungus. It is attached to Queen Anne's lace by its proboscis. A bit startling to come across.
A bit startling and grim to come across this in a local meadow/nut grove earlier in summer. Perhaps the moth is a cloudywing affected by a cordyceps fungus...but the visual lingers more than the 'what is it/what happened' part.
an OS map of Upper Deeside with a poem-label
'for someone / who doesn't walk // I still keep / a lot of maps', day of access for the disabled and vulnerable to Ballochbuie, photo by Sam MacDiarmid.
The railed-off edge of Goole Model Boat Club: a purpose-built sailing pond in the town's historic south dock, with a listed boat hoist in its grounds.
"The Dutch River was a correction, an attempt to alleviate the flooding caused by the re-routing of the Don. It is still the Don, as it nears the Ouse, the Don turned brackish and tidal, it is more than the Don and less than the Don, all rivers and none."
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/dutch-river
Lanzhou China, sketch.
Out now! It's Time, a chronomemoir by @taniahershman.bsky.social is a beautiful book blending memoir, play and poetry, with this glorious cover by CF Sherratt and it's released today. Come and take a look on our website for more information and a few sample pages: www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction
some work by Nico Vassilakis and I, with thanks to Utsanga: www.utsanga.it/turnbull-vas...
Putting on my Publisher hat, I have an announcement:
Augur Press will be open to submissions of Novellas & Novelettes from both agented and unagented writers starting THIS WEEK!
It’s not open yet. But while we wait…
AMA about publishing with this fledgling small press.
Come find us at Stems, a book fair
We’ll be there alongside a great list of presses for two days.
Saturday 19th – Sunday 20th July
Hours: 11am – 6pm
Helen Marten Studio, 55 Laburnum St, London, E2 8BD
(nearest stations: Hoxton / Haggerston on the Windrush Line)
See you there!
an article I did on creative disabled access to wild nature for JMT a while ago. www.johnmuirtrust.org/resources/70...
Mark Goodwin's poem "Walk" [Steps/Longbarrow Press] planted as part of rout/e, an ongoing footpress, in 2020, at Marble Rock, Gananoque. From ystrdy: re: 2025 readability: a difference in angle makes all the difference. Moss/sporophytes, beneath. 2020 post: etuor.wordpress.com#coordinates
maybe I will approach bluesky as if a path I might return to once a week or so -- though path and calendar are contrary concepts. [watersnake, Limerick wetland]
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