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  Friday 2nd August 2024

  Jeanette Burton

  On writing Ostriches: Ten Poems about My DadThe common man, truth, humour and finding your own voice

  A few years ago, I taught Arthur Miller’s great masterpiece, Death of a Salesman, to a group of sixth form students. At its heart, the play is about a parent child relationship. The […]

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  Friday 5th July 2024

  Carole Bromley

  The curious case of the competition poem…

  To coincide with the launch of our special competition to help celebrate our millionth pamphlet sale later in the year, we asked York-based poet Carole Bromley to shed light on the elusive matter […]

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  Thursday 28th March 2024

  Candlestick Press

  Hold onto your Easter bonnets!

  What better time to highlight our recent title Ten Poems about Hats which contains headgear galore – everything from trilbies to cloches? James Tate’s prose poem ‘The List of Famous […]

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  Friday 2nd February 2024

  Candlestick Press

  Meet the stockistState Bookstore Tasmania

  The State Bookstore in Tasmania has only recently become a Candlestick stockist. But this hasn’t stopped the in-store team from being enthusiastic champions of our ‘instead of a card’ range. Here, Store Manager […]

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  Monday 8th January 2024

  Candlestick Press

  Why not judge a hat by its cover?

  We asked artist (and poet) Jane Burn to share with us the process of creating the wonderful cover image for our new Ten Poems about Hats title. Here’s what she told us… This picture […]

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  Friday 6th October 2023

  Candlestick Press

  Meet the stockistBooks on the Hill

  Third in our series of blogposts profiling some of our lovely stockists is ‘Books on the Hill’, an independent, family-run bookshop in the historic city of St. Albans, just 20 minutes by train from the centre of […]

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