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pilot series
We are pleased to announce that we have embarked on an exciting project, publishing eighteen poets from Great Britain & Northern Ireland aged 30 or younger under the editorship of Roddy Lumsden who will share his vast experience with these young poets, helping develop their work and to publish their first volume of poetry.
The project has attracted Arts Council funding for which we are grateful.
The first pamphlets were published in April 2007, and we have now published the eighteen pamphlets from the project -
Adam O'Riordan - queen of the cotton cities
Camellia Stafford - another pretty colour, another break for air
Gareth Jones - weekend millionnaires
Jay Bernard's - your sign is cuckoo, girl
Miriam Gamble - this man's town
John McCullough - the lives of ghosts
Retta Bowen - the ornamental world
Vidyan Ravinthiran - at home or nowhere
Sarah Howe - a certain chinese encyclopedia
Charlotte Runcie - seventeen horse skeletons
Richard O'Brien - your own devices
NEW Ailbhe Darcy - a fictional dress (published january 2010)
NEW Simon Pomery - the stream (published january 2010)
Already the scheme has met with great success, with Jay Bernard - your sign
is cuckoo girl & Kate Potts - whichever music being selected as Poetry Book Society pamphlet choices & Kate Potts pamphlet was shortlisted for the inaugral Michale Marks Award.
We hope to build upon this and over the course of the project provide an exhaustive list of the new talent writing poetry today - keep your eye on the
list, as it's sure to include names that will feature heavily in the future of the nation's poetry scene.