Tall Lighthouse is an independent publishing house in the UK, established in 1999 by Les Robinson.http://www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk/ It publishes full collections of poetry, pamphlets, and the anthology City Lighthouse, a collection of poems by established and emerging poets alike, having featured work by Maurice Riordan

Maurice Riordan

Maurice Riordan is an Irish poet, translator, and editor. Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, Riordan has published three collections of poetry: A Word from the Loki , a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S...

, Hugo Williams

Hugo Williams

Hugo Williams is a British poet, journalist and travel writer. His full name is Hugh Mordaunt Vyner Williams He is the son of actor Hugh Williams and the model and actress Margaret Vyner, who co-wrote some upper-middle-class comedies in the late 1950s...

, Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! — a title alluding to W. H. Auden's Look, Stranger!, D. H. Lawrence's Look! We have come through! and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach' — was published by Faber in February 2007...

 and Roddy Lumsden

Roddy Lumsden

Roddy Lumsden is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other...

, among others. The press has established itself as a leading light on the small press poetry scene,http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article6068997.ece four of its pamphlet publications having received the Poetry Book Society

Poetry Book Society

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T. S. Eliot and friends in 1953. Each quarter the Society selects one recently published collection of poetry for its members. The Society also publishes the quarterly poetry journal Bulletin, and it administers the competition for the annual T. S. Eliot Prize...

's Pamphlet Choice Award in Spring 2006, Summer and Winter 2008, and Spring 2009.http://www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk/publications.html The current Director and Editor of the press is Gareth Lewis, who took over after Les Robinson stepped down from those roles on the 1st October 2011. http://www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk/directorsstatement.html

Authors

Poets published by Tall Lighthouse include Helen Mort, Aoife Mannix, Baden Prince, Pierre Ringwald, Heather Taylor

Heather Taylor

Heather Taylor is a Canadian poet, writer, filmmaker, and social media and community specialist whose work has been produced throughout Europe, Asia, Australia & North America. She has been a host on Resonance FM & Sound Radio with guest slots on CBC, CKUA , CKUF & BBC London Radio...

 and Alan Buckley

Alan Buckley

Alan Peter Buckley is an English football manager. He was manager of League Two side Grimsby Town until his dismissal in September 2008...

. A number of young poets (under 30) are also published as part of the press's Pilot series.

Pilot Series

The Pilot series is a project started by Tall Lighthouse in 2007, aimed at publishing poetry pamphlets by eighteen poets under the age of 30, under the editorship of Roddy Lumsden

Roddy Lumsden

Roddy Lumsden is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other...

.http://www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk/pilot.html The project attracted Arts Council funding, and has so far met with success, two of the five Eric Gregory Award

Eric Gregory Award

The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....

winners for 2008 being Pilot series featured poets.http://www.societyofauthors.org/prizes-grants-and-awards/prizes-for-fiction-and-non-fiction/prizes_2008.html

The poets published as part of the series to date are:

• 2007 Abi Curtis, Adam O'Riordan, Camellia Stafford, Gareth Jones, Jay Bernard and Miriam Gamble
• 2008 John McCullough, Retta Bowen, Kate Potts, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Ben Wilkinson and Emily Berry
• 2009 Amy Key, Sarah Howe, Charlotte Runcie, Richard O'Brien, Ailbhe Darcy and Simon Pomery

Five of the Pilot poets were also chosen to feature at 2009's StAnza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival, held in St Andrews.http://www.stanzapoetry.org/2009/event.php?event=166/

External links

• Tall Lighthouse website
• The Poetry Book Society