To hell with the small life. I am not exquisite.
Cannot sing like bone china. This is the blue hour.

I swim in it, alone and perfectly.

Seven years after Envies the Birds appeared to wide acclaim, Longbarrow Press is delighted to announce the publication of The Blue Hour, the second full-length poetry collection by Angelina D’Roza.

“Melancholic, beautifully contemplative poems, fusing binaries of past, present, memory and fiction, temporality and arrested time … Solace is in the repetition, in cyclicality. Endings are always beginnings.’—Ágnes Lehóczky on The Blue Hour.

The Blue Hour
£13 (special launch price)

UK orders (+ £2.50 postage)

Europe orders (+ £6.45 postage)

Rest of World orders (+ £11.25 postage)

A beautifully produced 96-page hardback, The Blue Hour is available now from Longbarrow Press. You can order the book securely by clicking on the relevant PayPal link above (major debit cards accepted – no PayPal account required). Click here to read ‘Lullaby’; click here to read ‘Frangipani’; click here to read ‘The Hathersage Road’.

“Last year we buried the remains of my Dad, his ashes, in a place that he knew, and that he loved. And the word grave & the word grief, they are gathered in the word gravity. We are all pulled back to our ground.”

A new piece by Mark Goodwin (with photographs by Nikki Clayton) examines the phenomenology of place and the (literal) pull of ground. Click here to read ‘Gathering Matters’ on the Longbarrow Blog.

The last day to order books for Christmas delivery (to UK addresses, via Royal Mail) is Sunday 17 December. We’ll be delivering orders throughout Sheffield over the weekend of 23/24 December (on foot); any orders to Sheffield addresses received by 22 December will be delivered in time for Christmas. We can gift-wrap your orders and/or send them to a different UK address at no extra cost; simply email Brian Lewis at longbarrowpress@gmail.com with the details. Click here to browse our current publications. We also offer Longbarrow Gift Certificates (ideal for those last-minute presents); click here for details.