pilot series

We are pleased to announce that we have embarked on an exciting project where we will are publishing eighteen poets under 30 under the editorship

of Roddy Lumsden who will share his vast experience with these young

poets, helping deveop 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 since then we have published twelve -

Abi Curtis - humbug

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

Kate Potts - whichever music

Vidyan Ravinthiran - at home or nowhere

Ben Wilkinson - the sparks

Emily Berry - stingray fevers

Having seen new publications in 2008 from John McCullough, Retta Bowen, Kate Potts,Vidyan Ravinthiran, Ben Wilkinson & Emily Berry we have now launched the first two in 09 - Amy Key & Sarah Howe & in the summer we willbe launching pamphlets from Charlotte Runcie & Richard O'Brien...

We are also pleased to announce that there will be a Pilot Series reading at the newly formed TIC-TOC Brighton Poetry Festival in May 2009.

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, and with Adam O'Riordan & Miriam Gamble being featured in a recent Guardian article on emerging voices in British poetry.

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.