Every walk contains its ghosts. Someone repeatedly encountered during lockdown became part of our remembered landscape, then disappeared. “Blessings on her… her devotion to herons, and to morning light.” Have You Always Been Here? @LongbarrowPress longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/…

"A series of directives will be flagged up in burbled tones..." How can we resist the language of targets, management & perpetual busyness, or find alternative ways of seeing? Have You Always Been Here? asks, but quietly. @LongbarrowPress longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

Don Valley to Wardsend Cemetery. Pylons & landfill gulls to bees hanging from ragwort. Have You Always Been Here? maps an unofficial Sheffield often absent from media but rich in life. @LongbarrowPress longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

No expertise required. Just curiosity. Have You Always Been Here? invites readers to slow down and notice the overlooked details that quietly shape our lives. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

My partner gave me the title: Have You Always Been Here? A question addressed to landscape, memory, birdsong, trees, silence, and perhaps even a more care-attentive part of the self. A new 3-part poetry sequence from @LongbarrowPress. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

How do we reconnect with the living world when so much of modern life keeps us indoors, online, & fixed to screens? This sequence follows paths through river valleys, reservoir perimeters, & overlooked spaces where attention becomes a form of belonging. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

In an age of acceleration, efficiency and endless scrolling, slowness can feel radical. Linger. Listen. Look again. Have You Always Been Here? from @LongbarrowPress longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

Written during and after the pandemic, these poems begin with confinement and move towards attention, encounter and belonging. Not a book about escape, but about learning to be present. Have You Always Been Here? @LongbarrowPress longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

From Eyes Front: Have You Always Been Here? Wringing each other – two sky-blue hospital gloves peeled off in the road. Early-morning mist: no view of the Casino and no hills beyond. A dip into chill – a fallen leaf has twisted to a clinch of frost. longbarrowpress.com/

We can spend days being pulled towards the next notification, headline, outrage. Have You Always Been Here? asks: what happens when we stay put long enough to notice what's already there? A new 3-part pamphlet sequence from @LongbarrowPress. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/…

My poems. My partner's illustrations. They helped us through Covid. Longbarrow Press turned them into three beautiful pamphlets. We're small. No marketing. If they sell, Longbarrow can publish more poets. Share this post and you'll be helping more than us. longbarrowpress.com/featured…

'My partner is a visual artist and she’d been a birdwatcher as a child. This time I was walking with someone who knows the names of birds. Yellow Hammer, Dipper, Tree Creeper, Mistle Thrush. Learning the names helped me learn more about the creatures.' longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

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. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

During Covid lockdowns my partner and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning – from 6am to 8.30am. On our walks, we paid attention to life around us – to small creatures, insects and birds. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

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