Les Robinson
Managing Editor, ignitionpress
Les Robinson is the Director of tall-lighthouse, a renowned poetry business which introduced many new voices to the UK poetry scene, publishing award-winning pamphlets. Poets first published by Les who have gone on to achieve major success include Helen Mort, Sarah Howe, Emily Berry, Liz Berry, Ailbhe Darcy, Vidyan Ravinthiran and Rhian Edwards.
tall-lighthouse continues to publish a select number of full poetry collections and pamphlets.
Les has also been a Trustee of the Poetry Book Society (PBS) and edited the 20/20 series of poetry pamphlets for EYEWEAR which was shortlisted for the 2015 Michael Marks pamphlet publisher award.