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HappenStance Press was established by Helena Nelson in 2005, primarily for pamphlets. Now we do a range of publications, and a regular publisher’s blog reports on what’s going on (link follows).

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Latest blog post

13 September 2022

RUNCIBLE SPOONS & OTHER CUTTING EDGE ISSUES

In December 2012 I blogged about the spoon poems in Richie McCaffery's Spinning Plates. Lovely work. Richie is a collector of old things, notably spoons and books. I've been a bit of a collector of both too. In the end I had to stop. I develope...