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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the launch of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite at Shakespeare's in Sheffield last night. Over 60 in attendance (and more turned away at the door). Special thanks to Matthew Clegg, Naomi Frisby, Ray Hearne, Rob Hindle and Karl Hurst for lending their voices.

1. Fay Musselwhite reading at the launch of 'The Gleaning', as photographer Karl Hurst looks on. 2. Ray Hearne leads the chorus in a performance of Musselwhite's 'Reform Is Here'. On stage: Karl Hurst, Naomi Frisby, Rob Hindle, Ray Hearne, Matthew Clegg. 3. Roughly two-thirds of the audience, pictured during the interval. 4. Applause. by @longbarrowpress

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Local distribution, 23 September 2026. Seven miles, two and a half hours, two deliveries, half a city. A rerun of Friday's route, almost step for step, with fever, chills, fatigue. No sick leave with Longbarrow Press. by @longbarrowpress

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Local distribution, 18 September 2026. Six miles, two hours, two deliveries, two rivers. A city at night. As the lights turn hostile. Soft rain continual. by @longbarrowpress

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When the heron preens
delicate wisps of feather
melt into light.

Three postcards (350gsm uncoated cardstock) accompanying three new pamphlets (Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living) by Matthew Clegg. Haiku on reverse.

Have You Always Been Here?
Out now
https://longbarrowpress.com/current-publications/matthew-clegg/ by @longbarrowpress

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Local distribution, 8 September 2026. Ten miles, three-and-a-half hours, four deliveries, three postal districts, two carrier bags, one inside the other. Solvitur ambulando. by @longbarrowpress

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"For two years of lockdowns, my partner and I walked Sheffield's Rivelin Valley at dawn. Moss. Herons. Froglets. Treecreepers. Those walks became three poetry pamphlets and a way of paying attention again."

'Have You Always Been Here?'
Matthew Clegg

Three new pamphlets
Published today
Available here:
https://longbarrowpress.com/current-publications/matthew-clegg by @longbarrowpress

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Local distribution, 6 September 2026. Six miles, two hours, three conversations, three deliveries. In memory of Paul Besley (1959-2026), walker, reader, writer, and lifelong learner, who always kept the horizon in view. by @longbarrowpress

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Cover reveal - or, rather, three cover reveals - ahead of the publication of 'Have You Always Been Here?', a series of three new pamphlets by Matthew Clegg (out from Longbarrow Press next week).

You can pre-order 'Have You Always Been Here?' - and read a poem from the first pamphlet - here:
longbarrowpress.com/featured-poem/ by @longbarrowpress

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"[The haiku] were the discipline and devotion of our care, the minute variations of our unfolding days."

Matthew Clegg on the development of 'Have You Always Been Here?', a themed work in three pamphlets (out from Longbarrow Press in early September). A new post on the Longbarrow Blog

https://longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/post-nature-matthew-clegg/ by @longbarrowpress

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Join us next month for the rescheduled launch of 'The Gleaning', the second poetry collection by Fay Musselwhite.

Wednesday 30 September
Upstairs at Shakespeare's, 146-148 Gibraltar Street, Sheffield S3 8UB

Free entry, all welcome. Book here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fay-musselwhite-presents-the-gleaning-tickets-1997436810269 by @longbarrowpress

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'I cannot read the sky, I cannot place the constellations, but I can grasp a pattern of disturbance. There is a trick, a feint, to face the dark field without staring into it, to stay focused without a focal point.'

The Perseid meteor shower is set to peak tonight, in the small hours, on the other side of the solar eclipse, the culmination of several weeks of activity, with a few more weeks to come. It's not so much an event as a process. Here's a piece written in the wake of the 2021 shower.

https://thehalt.wordpress.com/2021/08/24/flights/ by @longbarrowpress

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Local distribution, 8 August 2026. Twelve miles, four hours, one delivery, three hundred and fifty used corks handed to Majestic Wine Warehouse for recycling, several chance encounters with friends at the intersection of John Street and Hill Street, two feet, one city. by @longbarrowpress

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