Updates – 'Instead of a card' poetry pamphlets

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

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

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

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

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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October 2024

Dazzling new poems to celebrate a happy landmark

Behind the scenes at the museum

The endless surprises of watching a son grow into a man

Poems that find humour and joy in life with a daughter

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