On Friday 25 and Saturday 26 October, the Small Publishers Fair returns to the Conway Hall in Holborn, London, showcasing the work of over 60 publishers from across the UK and around the world, with an exhibition and a varied programme of readings and talks. Longbarrow Press will be among the stallholders (alongside ​Intergraphia) over the two days of the fair; we’ll have a full range of titles available to browse and buy. The fair is open from 11am to 7pm, with programmes of readings and talks in the afternoons (free, no booking required). Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London, WC1R 4RL. Admission free; all welcome. Click here for more details.

On Tuesday 5 November, Longbarrow poets Steve Ely and Pete Green read with Karl Riordan and Rory Waterman as part of the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Poetry and Poetics series. Lecture Theatre 2, The Diamond, University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, S3 7RD. 6pm start. Admission free; all welcome, no booking required. Our current Featured Poem is ‘The Black Mirror’ from Steve Ely’s new collection Eely; you can read it here.

“The light takes its shape from a gap in the blocking stones and prints itself on the floor of the barrow. Time passes. The light holds its shape. It’s an old shape. Old as the oolites. Solid as the sarsens. It has minutes before the sun’s arc, or a passing cloud, peels it away.”  In July 2024, Longbarrow Press editor Brian Lewis travelled to West Kennet Long Barrow, walking four-fifths of the Ridgeway in thirty-five hours, a journey of seventy miles across four English counties. Click here to read his account of the walk.

Finally, The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, a series of interviews in which poet Chris Jones speaks to poets about their own creative inspirations and practice, is a few weeks into its second season. The first of the new podcasts is a discussion with the poet Fay Musselwhite about David Jones’s book-length poem In Parenthesis and her own sequence ‘Memoir of a Working River’ (from her Longbarrow Press collection Contraflow). Listen to it here.

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