NEWS from the lighthouse - Spring 2008

STOP PRESS - 8th April - we've just got news that Jay Bernard's pamphlet

your sign is cuckoo, girl is to be the PBS pamphlet choice for Summer 08! Congratulations to Jay & to Roddy Lumsden who edited the work as part of

our Pilot series. Its our second success with PBS following Pierre Ringwald's selection back in 06.

In 2008 we're building upon firm foundations and already it promises to be our best year yet with pamphlets & collections from Andy Brown, Rhian Edwards, James Bell, Emma McGordon, Joe Duggan, Stacy Fox & Todd Swift amongst others. There will also be a new review hitting towardsthe end of the year, and we'll be cracking the whip as we hope to squeeze full collections out of some of our current crop of poets, with new books in the pipeline from Aoife Mannix, Ronnie McGrath, Pierre Ringwald,Wendy French and Ken Champion.

We're delighted to be publishing some turbulent weather, a second collection

of poetry from Brendan Cleary which will be launched in Brighton on June 5. Brendan will also be supplementing the release with readings in London at the Lewisham Irish Festival and Calder Bookshop. Check our events page for further details.

The pilot series will also progress from strength to strength, with John McCullough, Retta Bowen, Kate Potts and Vidyan Ravinthiran already

on board and others to follow. Plus, there's murmurings in the office of one

of contemporary poetry's biggest names coming on board for a one-off

publication - watch this space for further details.

The events will look to get bigger and better, we will be working regularly

with the wonderful people at Calder Bookshop putting on events & workshops as well as continuing our last Wednesdays at the Poetry Cafe and our events in Brighton. On the back of a couple of successful nights at the Arts Picturehouse, we will be looking to establish regular poetry readings in Cambridge as well.