Julie Johnstone

An offer of intergalactic proportions on mine and @essencepress 's forthcoming book from @reaktionbooks , *A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry* by Edwin Morgan @edmorgantrust . If you order the book on the @waterstones app or website by 20th February you can get 25% off. Just enter FEB26 at the check-out. By my maths that brings it down to £18.75 which is eminently reasonable I'd say.... Here's the main landing page for the offer: /campaign/february-pre-order-offer 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀🚀 🚀🚀 🚀

Very much looking forward to having a table for Essence Press at the Artists' Bookmarket this coming weekend 14-15 Feb @fruitmarketgallery #ArtistsBookMarket Do drop by to say hello if you are nearby... Over 60 book artist and publisher tables to browse. /event/artists-bookmarket-2026/

COVER REVEAL! 🪐🪐 🪐 🪐 Julie (@essencepress ) and I are delighted to share the cover, title, and chapter list for our new book of Edwin Morgan's poetry and art. *A Home In Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry* is now available for pre-order from the Reaktion website (link below) for £25, and will be abroad in the world on June 1 next year. Here's a rundown of the contents: Introduction: Edwin Morgan’s Visions and Soundings, by Greg Thomas 1 Play of Imagination: The Scrapbooks 2 Verbivocovisual: Concrete Poetry in the 1960s 3 Between Poetry and Design: Little Magazines, Booklets, Prints and More 4 Chance Encounters: Newspoems 5 The Voice in Space: Sound Poetry and the 1970s 6 Rainbows in Concrete: Cursive and Colour Poems 7 Second Lives We're really excited to share this side of Morgan's work and world with you in new detail. The book contains lots of rare and unpublished material and is the result of many hours and days spent trawling through archives at Glasgow University @uofglasgowasc , the Scottish Poetry Library @splscotland , the Mitchell @glasgowlifelibraries , and beyond. @reaktionbooks have helped us to present Morgan's universe in all its visual-linguistic jouissance in ways that haven't been possible before. We have many people to thank, but at this stage, particular gratitude to the @edmorgantrust for their financial and practical support, and to Morgan's literary executors Jim McGonigal and Hamish Whyte for their amazing intellectual generosity and their enthusiasm for this project. /work/a-home-in-space

Alongside publishing new works by Thomas A Clark @cairngallery @jrcarpenter and @infoprice at the upcoming @smallpublishers fair next weekend 24-25 October, I will be showing many new works of my own developed over the last year. You can view a round up of Essence Press 2025 projects here: /2025-2/ Looking forward to catching up with everyone at the fair, do drop by if you are nearby...

One of three new collaborations that Essence Press will be launching @smallpublishers fair this coming Friday and Saturday 24-25 October. cobble by J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter /essence-press/jr-carpenter/ #smallpublishersfair25

One of three new collaborations that Essence Press will be launching @smallpublishers this coming Friday and Saturday 24-25 October. sweet apple after Sappho by Richard Price @infoprice /essence-press/richard-price/ #smallpublishersfair25

One of three new collaborations that Essence Press will be launching @smallpublishers this coming Friday and Saturday 24-25 October. a story of floating weeds | homage to Ozu by Thomas A Clark @cairngallery /essence-press/thomas-a-clark/ #Ozu #smallpublishersfair25

Delighted to have work featuring in the @edartfest exhibition at @blackiehouselibrary this August. An Exhibition at Blackie House Library and Museum inspired by a group of enigmatic Coptic ‘Music of the Spheres’ Manuscripts New work by myself, @workspacedunfermline Alan Grieve and @edwardsummerton Eddie Summerton in response to these fascinating manuscripts. With books, objects and art from the Blackie House collection And new original music composed in response from the Sun God Fraud Squad album An exciting blending of music, film, sculpture, artists books, and more. More info at /exhibitions/ring-of-truth/

On this delightful spring day here in Edinburgh I am happy to be introducing a new series of less, and the first four issues. The first four in the new series feature the work of @charlotte_jung_writer , @gregchthomas , @hjosephinegiles , and myself. Series 3 focuses on the form of single word poems. It uses a standard format of 90mm x 190mm, in either a landscape or portrait orientation. Each card-print comes with a light grey DL 110×220 envelope. Issues of series 3 cost £3 each. Issues 1-4 are available at a special group price of £10. joy - Charlotte Jung restlessnest - Greg Thomas lessmòr - Harry Josephine Giles blossom - Julie Johnstone /essence-press/less-journal/

I'll be at the PAGES Artists' Book Fair on 21-22 March in Leeds with my Essence Press table, looking forward to it. Drop by if you are near by.

All set up here at @fruitmarketgallery Bookmarket. This weekend Saturday and Sunday, do drop by!

Not long now before the Artists' Bookmarket @fruitmarketgallery the weekend of 15-16 Feb in Edinburgh. Very much looking forward to showing my work and connecting with all the other artists and visitors. Do drop by and say hello. /event/artists-bookmarket-2025/