To mark the forthcoming publication of Matthew Clegg‘s Have You Always Been Here? (a series of three pamphlets, available from 7 September 2026), we’ve created a limited three-for-two offer on his three hardback collections with Longbarrow Press: West North East, The Navigators, and Cazique.
Payments are handled securely via PayPal (debit cards accepted via the ‘Check Out as a Guest’ option – no PayPal account required). You can also pay by bank transfer (email longbarrowpress@gmail.com for bank transfer details). All orders are carefully parcelled in robust packaging. Please note that this is a UK-only offer (ends 7 September 2026).
3 Matthew Clegg hardbacks for £25.98
UK orders (+£4.00 postage)
Cazique by Matthew Clegg (2018)
96-page hardback collection. Cazique is a book in three movements. ‘Officer’ / ‘Zipped File’ details the breakdown in communication between employee and employer. ‘Holodets’ tackles what is lost in translation during a love affair between an English poet and a Russian immigrant. The title sequence offers the last confessions of a washed-up confidence trickster: a man inspired by the 19th century swindler Gregor MacGregor – the self-titled Cazique of Poyais. The poems of Cazique continue the author’s engagement with personae and place – and the ever-unstable relationship between the two. Clegg’s formal and tonal ingenuity make these poems documents of doublespeak: true and false, sometimes neither, sometimes both. – Dane Holt. Click here to read sample poems from Cazique.
The Navigators by Matthew Clegg (2015)
128-page hardback collection. The Navigators explores the portals that connect time and place, and meditates on the element of water, as it moves through both. The book opens with rain falling in the Lake District, flowing to the South Yorkshire waterways, before arriving at the North Sea. The Navigators is an affirmation of the reflection and regeneration that we find where waters meet and mingle. Click here to read sample poems from the book.
West North East by Matthew Clegg (2013)
96-page hardback collection. Matthew Clegg’s first full-length collection is a book in three parts, each comprising a different approach to ideas of crisis, journey and imaginative crossing. Includes ‘The Walking Cure’ and the sequences ‘Edgelands’ and ‘Chinese Lanterns’. A great book. – Helen Mort. Click here to read sample poems from West North East.
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