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Frank & Stella – Mark Wynne
we’re excited to return to the pamphlet format with this engrossing sequence of poems inspired by the life & work of Frank Auerbach ‘Mark Wynne’s poems are finely tuned machines.’ John...
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welcome back marc swan
we’re pleased to publish marc’s new collection all it would take poetry that spans a life in words ‘Not read, but experienced, Marc’s poems encourage us to see the world – its...
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Brendan’s lockdown blues
despite the cancellation of the event there’s a great article on Brendan Cleary in the i newspaper (24 March 2020) thanks to Nick Hasted for this.
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welcome to Sadie McCarney
a tremendous young Canadian poet who we’ve been following for some years and is now published by tall-lighthouse! McCarney’s poems are led by voice and I am glad to follow Lily Blacksell...
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Roddy Lumsden
We are sad to record that Roddy Lumsden died on Friday 10 Jaunuary 2020. Roddy was a great influence to many young poets, in particular through our pilot series of...
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double book launch
to celebrate the start of the next chapter for tall-lighthouse we held a double book launch & reading at the Poetry Café in London on Monday 20 May 2019. Brendan...
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past book launches
Julie’s Morrissy’s debut collection Where, the Mile End was launched at Poetry Ireland in Dublin on Thursday 21 February 2019. Brendan Cleary’s sequence of poems on the photographer Eadweard Muybridge Do Horses Fly? was...
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RIP Jazzman
in 2018 we were saddened to record the passing of Jazzman John Clarke the original tall-lighthouse poet who we met at Magnetic North Writers in Greenwich & published his early...
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