Longbarrow Press

Wrapped in luminous cloud, pushed by the wind, we walk up out of Hayfield in the steps of the glorious trespass, April 1932…
Longbarrow Press is proud to announce the publication of Peter Riley‘s long-awaited new pamphlet, The Ascent of Kinder Scout, a meditation on (and elegy for) this physical and cultural landmark of the Peak District. The front and back covers feature two remarkable paintings of Kinder Downfall by artist Paul Evans.  Beautifully designed and produced, The Ascent of Kinder Scout is now available to order.  Click on the relevant PayPal option below to order your copy.  Click here to read an extract from The Ascent of Kinder Scout.

UK: £5 (+ £1.75 P&P)

Europe: £5 (+ £3 P&P)

Rest of World: £5 (+ £3.50 P&P)

Paul Evans‘s current exhibition at Sheffield’s Graves Gallery brings together drawings of mythical, elusive and endangered creatures, including a life-sized drawing of a spade-toothed whale, and the haunting, riddling series Bestiary of Bones (a collaboration with poet A.B. Jackson).  Longbarrow Press has produced a new podcast featuring Evans and Jackson discussing gut parasites, the romantic sublime and the development of The Paper Museum (at the Graves Gallery until Saturday 16 August; open Wed-Fri 10am-3pm, Sat 11am-4pm, admission free.  Further details are available here).  You can listen to the podcast below:

Click here to read Jane Faram‘s review of The Paper Museum for Our Favourite Places.

Longbarrow Press reissues several of its acclaimed pamphlets this month as part of a new series of special offers.  The first package features the pamphlet and CD editions of Matthew Clegg‘s Lost Between Stations (2011), his sequence Officer (2007) and a handmade, limited Matthew Clegg postcard.  The second package includes Kelvin Corcoran‘s 2011 sequence Words Through a Hole Where Once There Was a Chimpanzee’s Face (40 page pamphlet and 38 minute audio CD), his broadside Learning to Play the Harp
(2009) and a handmade, limited Kelvin Corcoran postcard.  Both packages are priced at £12 (inclusive of UK p&p) and make an ideal (and affordable) introduction to the work of the press.  An additional piece of Longbarrow Press ‘ephemera’ will also be included with orders received in August.  October 2014 update: these offers have now ended.  You can also order these items separately via the Matthew Clegg and Kelvin Corcoran pages on this site.

‘I wanted ‘here’ and ‘elsewhere’, ‘home’ and ‘away’…’  Matthew Clegg‘s memoir of his formative encounters with the poetry of Derek Walcott is one of two new pieces on the Longbarrow Blog; click here to read his appreciation of Omeros and The Schooner ‘Flight’ in ‘Meeting and Melting’.  Chris Jones considers the fate of ‘landmark’ poetry anthologies in ‘The New, New, New Poetry: A Consumer’s Guide’, revisiting anthology introductions and commentaries drawn from the last 50 years; click here to read his survey of the changing ‘state of play’ in the UK poetry landscape.

Finally, all three parts of Pilgrimage: a walk through The Footing (recorded in Sheffield on 14 June 2014) are now available to hear via the player below (scroll down for full list of poems performed). The Footing is still available from Longbarrow Press (£12 inc UK P&P); click here for more details (and to order copies).

Part One: ‘Three Night Walks: III’ (Andrew Hirst); ‘The Bench’ (Angelina Ayers); ‘Death and the Gallant 1: The Adoration of the Magi’ (Chris Jones); ‘From from a St Juliot to Beyond a Beeny: Kilometer 2′ (Mark Goodwin); ‘Parish’ (James Caruth).
Part Two: ‘Contra Flow’ (Fay Musselwhite; ‘Ball Street Bridge’ (Angelina Ayers); ‘Attercliffe to the General Cemetery’ (Rob Hindle); ‘Quaker Grave’ (James Caruth); ‘Death and the Gallant 5: Saint James the Great’ (Chris Jones); ‘Memorial’ (James Caruth); ‘Path Kill’ (Fay Musselwhite); ‘From from a St Juliot to Beyond a Beeny: Kilometer 5′ (Mark Goodwin).
Part Three: ‘Ecgbert’ (Rob Hindle); ‘Stone Walls and Snowgates’ (Angelina Ayers); ‘From from a St Juliot to Beyond a Beeny: Kilometer 7′ (Mark Goodwin); ‘Closed Order’ (James Caruth); ‘Death and the Gallant 8: Death and the Gallant’ (Chris Jones); ‘Impasse’ (Fay Musselwhite); ‘A Stone’ (James Caruth).