Longbarrow Press

Longbarrow Press has created a limited series of special packages comprising a selection of pamphlets, recordings and scarce ephemera. Each of these three packages (including pamphlets and CDs by Kelvin Corcoran, Matthew Clegg and Lee Harwood) is priced at £10 (inclusive of UK p&p) and is exclusive to the website. The packages make an ideal (and affordable) introduction to the work of the press. Click here for more information and to order via PayPal.

W S Graham’s elegies for the painters Peter Lanyon and Bryan Wynter are discussed in ‘Dead Letters’, a new essay by Brian Lewis published on the Longbarrow Blog. Click here to read the essay. Further posts by Alistair Noon and Mark Goodwin will appear on the blog during March.

On Saturday 30 March (2pm) artist Paul Evans presents The Song of Meeting and Parting at Sheffield’s Bloc Projects. This special event will take in a poetry walk led by Matthew Clegg and Chris Jones, a ceremony by Becky Bowley, a new painting by Dominic Mason, and a new billboard commission by Evans. Please note that this event is now fully booked.

Our current Featured Poem is Peter Riley‘s ‘Alstonefield 1995’; click here to read the poem (you can also listen to a recording of Riley reading the poem here). Incubator, a collaboration between photographer Karl Hurst and electro artist Nullish, appears here. Finally, we’ve uploaded an excerpt from February’s Outskirts and Outposts event (featuring Matthew Clegg, Mark Goodwin and Chris Jones); listen to the recording here.

Mark Goodwin and Chris Jones will read at Newstead Abbey on Saturday 9 February as part of the inaugural Nottingham Festival of Words (click here for further details and booking). The two poets have devised a special, one-off collaborative performance for the occasion; an exploratory tour of the English outskirts (accompanied by a projected film of Nikki Clayton‘s photographs). Here’s a transcript of Elaine Aldred’s recent conversation with Goodwin, in which he discusses publishing, poetics, rock-climbing and slack-lining. Goodwin’s words and voice (and Clayton’s images) feature in this short film by Brian Lewis (based on our recent closer to ground to hear installation).

We’ve uploaded the third (and final) part of our recent Winter Songs event to SoundCloud (parts 1 & 2 are now deleted). A journey into exile with poets Angelina Ayers, Matthew Clegg, Andrew Hirst, Chris Jones and Fay Musselwhite (through landscapes haunted by the shades of TS Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Gyorgy Petri and Peter Reading). Click on the podcast below. ‘Listen to it / all night north…’

Poems in order of appearance: Journey of the Magi – TS Eliot (read by Chris Jones); 
St Hilary’s Exile – Angelina Ayers; Welund’s Lament – Andrew Hirst; There’s a certain slant of light… – Emily Dickinson (read by Angelina Ayers); Out Far and In Deep – Matthew Clegg
; Night Song of the Personal Shadow – Gyorgy Petri (read by Andrew Hirst)
; Impasse – Fay Musselwhite; Ovidian – Peter Reading (read by Matthew Clegg).

Finally, we’ve created a short film in response to Kelvin Corcoran‘s remarkable poem ‘Season Below Ground’ (featured in his 2010 Shearsman collection Hotel Shadow). Corcoran’s acclaimed 2011 pamphlet Words Through A Hole Where Once There Was A Chimpanzee’s Face is still available from Longbarrow Press (click here to order)