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Three front covers of the Ten Poems of Light poetry pamphlet on a decorative background

Monday 7th October 2024

Dazzling new poems to celebrate a happy landmark

This celebration title offers light in a whole variety of glorious guises, helping to mark the occasion of one million pamphlet sales for Candlestick Press. We encounter celestial light in the form of the sun, moon and […]

Three front covers of the Ten Poems about Museums poetry pamphlet on a decorative background

Monday 7th October 2024

Behind the scenes at the museum

In these vivid poems selected by David Clarke, we enter museums both real and imaginary to discover a host of beguiling artefacts. Museums manage to contain whole worlds. They can show us life as it was lived in past […]

Three front covers of the Ten Poems about Sons poetry pamphlet on a decorative background

Monday 7th October 2024

The endless surprises of watching a son grow into a man

In this delightful mini anthology we find touching and uplifting poems exploring sons as babies and sons as young men, as well as everything in between. We meet a boy daydreaming in bed on a summer’s evening, his […]

Three front covers of the Ten Poems about Daughters poetry pamphlet on a decorative background

Monday 7th October 2024

Poems that find humour and joy in life with a daughter

A daughter will always be a daughter, and this beautiful and tender selection celebrates that joyful fact. We begin with a birth and progress through the years via familiar landmarks; the beloved toys of early […]

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Tuesday 24th September 2024

A mighty million!

Candlestick is thrilled to be celebrating its millionth pamphlet sale – a major milestone that will be marked with a number of celebrations, including Ten Poems of Light to be published in […]

Three front covers of the School Days: Twenty Poems from the Classroom poetry pamphlet on a decorative background

Monday 2nd September 2024

It’s back to school…

You never forget your school days… Is this because we were young, our minds marvellously open to the new and undiscovered? Or is it the repeating patterns of the school day and […]

Candlestick Press

Monday 7th October 2024

Dazzling new poems to celebrate a happy landmark

Monday 7th October 2024

Behind the scenes at the museum

Monday 7th October 2024

The endless surprises of watching a son grow into a man

Monday 7th October 2024

Poems that find humour and joy in life with a daughter

Tuesday 24th September 2024

A mighty million!

Monday 2nd September 2024

It’s back to school…

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