On Friday 24 and Saturday 25 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.

“The Dutch River was a course correction, completed in 1635, an attempt to alleviate the flooding caused by the re-routing of the Don several years earlier. 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.”  In July 2025, Longbarrow Press editor Brian Lewis embarked on a night walk via the waterways of South and East Yorkshire, departing Kirk Sandall at dusk, and arriving in Goole at dawn the next day. Click here to read ‘Dutch River’. “I grasp the top of one of the wooden posts, loosen the stake, and tear it from the soil. Then another. And again. It’s surprisingly easy. When I have cleared a way I stamp on the mesh. Over and over. It crumples like a flag.”  Two months later, Lewis returned to these waterways, extending the route from Leeds to Goole: a journey of forty miles, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, and all four ridings of Yorkshire. Click here to read ‘Unrecovered Time’.

Daybreak in the wreck of Dogger. Gulls drifting
over the slowly rising sea. Seals hauled out
on sandbanks, bleached ribs of stranded whales.
Dunlin and knot, swarming the mudflats,
armies of silt-spearing godwit and whaup.

Our current Featured Poem is ‘Storegga’ from Steve Ely’s new collection Eely; you can read it here.

“It felt as though the city’s cultural and economic power had been drained, or devolved to the outskirts. It doesn’t feel like that now. There’s a sense of circulation, or flow, and this has as much to do with people as it has to do with places.”
Two poetry readings – one in a former shop, one in a new shop – invite a consideration of Sheffield, its cultural networks, and the question of ‘localism’, as the city remakes itself, suburb by suburb. Click here to read ‘Urban Village’ by Brian Lewis.

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 third season. You can find new (and previous) episodes here.

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