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To mark our recent combined launch event, Australian poet Miriam Wei Wei Lo reads for us her beautiful poems ‘Cullen Late Harvest Semillon 2012’ from Ten Poems about Wine and 'View From […]

On 29th May 1953 Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the 29,035 foot summit of the world’s highest mountain. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of their remarkable feat of […]

Monday 15th May 2023

John Greening, guest editor

Selecting Ten Poems about Rubbish

It was an idea that might well have ended up in the recycling bin: Ten Poems about Rubbish… Could that really work? Who’s going to buy it? Are there even ten such poems in […]

Monday 17th April 2023

Candlestick Press

The mysterious case of the pamphlet

Here at Candlestick we call our small anthologies pamphlets. Pamphlets are relatively common creatures in the poetry world, and are generally understood to be a publication that is half the […]

Wednesday 22nd March 2023

Candlestick Press

Meet the stockistBanner Books

Second in our series of blogposts profiling some of our lovely stockists is Banner Books in the Republic of Ireland. Banner Books has two shops in County Clare – one in Ennistymon and one in Kilrush. Both shops are […]

Monday 5th December 2022

Candlestick Press

Let’s talk about paper and poetry

Dave Smith is sales director at Ratcliff & Roper Print Group which has been printing Candlestick pamphlets for more than 10 years. Here, he uncovers some of the lesser-known facts about the paper business and […]

Candlestick Press

Tuesday 1st August 2023

Candlestick Press

“One Wine poem and one Train poem…”

Monday 29th May 2023

Candlestick Press

To celebrate Everest Day 2023

Monday 15th May 2023

John Greening, guest editor

Selecting Ten Poems about Rubbish

Monday 17th April 2023

Candlestick Press

The mysterious case of the pamphlet

Wednesday 22nd March 2023

Candlestick Press

Meet the stockistBanner Books

Monday 5th December 2022

Candlestick Press

Let’s talk about paper and poetry

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