Candlestick Press

02/04/2025

Please join us on 30th April for the free launch of Ten Poems for Wellbeing with Vanessa Lampert – open mic slots available! More details here:

https://buytickets.at/candlestickpress/1653605

02/04/2025

Please join us on 30th April for the launch of Ten Poems for Wellbeing with Vanessa Lampert – open mic slots available! More details here:

Ten Poems for WellbeingONLINE ZOOM LAUNCH EVENTincluding open mic Wednesday 30th April at 7pm - 8.15pm BST Join us at an online...

28/03/2025

We’ve published four new titles in March (phew!) and there’s three more to follow in April… watch this space 😊

28/03/2025

We’ve published four new titles in March (phew!) and there’s three more to follow in April… watch this space 😊

21/03/2025

New! Ten Poems for Wellbeing, edited by Vanessa Lampert - thoughtful poems offering moments of pleasure in uncomplicated things.

There’s an expression: to be comfortable in your own skin. The words contain the idea that it’s possible to be at ease with yourself and your life – and that there’s fulfilment to be found in feeling this way.

These thoughtful poems offer moments of pleasure in uncomplicated things – flowers in a window box or eating toast at midnight – and remind us that we don’t always need to look very far to experience a sense of calm and wellbeing. The world can be a place that we know and trust:

“There’s a dream I have in which I
love the world. I run from end to end like fingers
through her hair. There are no borders, only wind.”

from ‘Meditations in an Emergency’ by Cameron Awkward-Rich

This is a selection to enjoy when we want to be reminded that if we look carefully, we have all we need to experience a sense of serenity and peace.

Edited by Vanessa Lampert who likes to walk on a windy hill and hasn’t grown out of building dams on beaches.

Poems by Laurie Bolger, Em Gray,Paula Jennings, Vanessa Lampert,Alden Nowlan, Cameron Awkward-Rich,Sara Teasdale, Jerrold Yam,Luke Samuel Yates and Dean Young.

Cover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows.

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten-poems-for-wellbeing/

21/03/2025

New! Ten Poems for Wellbeing, edited by Vanessa Lampert - thoughtful poems offering moments of pleasure in uncomplicated things:

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten-poems-for-wellbeing/

Poems by Laurie Bolger, Em Gray, Paula Jennings, Vanessa Lampert, Alden Nowlan, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Sara Teasdale, Jerrold Yam, Luke Samuel Yates and Dean Young.

Cover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows.

19/03/2025

Spring can creep up on us; it’s easy to miss the early signs that a new season is on the way. In her lyrical evocation of a pond on Dartmoor, leading naturalist Miriam Darlington pays close and loving attention to the quiet changes that take place – from the first shoots of flag iris to the “shivery delta” of frogspawn as it starts to wriggle with tadpoles.

There is an abiding sense of the enriching connection between humans and the wild landscape:

“The moor in spring can be an absorbent place. It takes you and your mood and enfolds you beneath its wing. Low sun brushed the grass tips, and in the pearly sky something subtle was happening. It was reflected in the water surface that was all a-glimmer, shining cloud on cloud as if sending it all back skywards…”

This beautiful pamphlet will delight readers at any time of year – a reminder that nature is always there, waiting to beguile us with its wonders.

Poems by Diana Hendry and Edward Thomas.
Cover illustration by Sarah Young.

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/the-spring-pond-where-rushes-and-sedges-gather/

19/03/2025

Spring can creep up on us; it’s easy to miss the early signs that a new season is on the way. In her lyrical evocation of a pond on Dartmoor, leading naturalist Miriam Darlington pays close and loving attention to the quiet changes that take place – from the first shoots of flag iris to the “shivery delta” of frogspawn as it starts to wriggle with tadpoles.

There is an abiding sense of the enriching connection between humans and the wild landscape:

“The moor in spring can be an absorbent place. It takes you and your mood and enfolds you beneath its wing. Low sun brushed the grass tips, and in the pearly sky something subtle was happening. It was reflected in the water surface that was all a-glimmer, shining cloud on cloud as if sending it all back skywards…”

This beautiful pamphlet will delight readers at any time of year – a reminder that nature is always there, waiting to beguile us with its wonders.

Poems by Diana Hendry and Edward Thomas.

Cover illustration by Sarah Young.

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/the-spring-pond-where-rushes-and-sedges-gather/

10/03/2025

Perfect for the mutability of March, Ten Poems about Weather edited by Graham Mort blows in today: https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten-poems-about-weather/

Poems by Emily Brontë, John Clare, Gillian Clarke, Helen Dunmore, Norman MacCaig, Graham Mort, Grace Nichols, Sheenagh Pugh, Neil Rollinson and Annette Volfing.

Cover illustration by Melissa Lhoirit.

07/03/2025

Our new arrival! Ten Poems about Babies enters the world today, celebrating the joy a new baby brings:

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten-poems-about-babies/

Poems by Niall Campbell, Sarala Estruch, Matthew Hollis, Jackie Kay, DH Lawrence, Sarojini Naidu, Jenny Pagdin, Christina Rossetti, Maggie Smith and Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Cover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows.

04/03/2025

Spring is in the air, and so is Christmas! Welcome to our first poetry competition of 2025 - it’s time to get your jingle on 🌲 https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/competitions/

04/03/2025

Spring is in the air, and so is Christmas! Welcome to our first poetry competition of 2025 - it’s time to get your jingle on 🌲

Our latest competition updates and previous results.

03/01/2025

Snowdrop is delighted to have been chosen by Candlestick Press as the beneficiary of their new pamphlet, 'Ten Poems about Snowdrops'.

The pamphlet will be published this month and costs £5.95, which also includes an eco-envelope and a bookmark!

With poems by Diana Hendry, Rosie Storey Hilton, Zaffar Kunial, Paula Meehan, Sarah Salway, AE Stallings, Jim Stewart, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mary Webb and William Wordsworth, the pamphlet celebrates winter's loveliest flower, which arrives at what can be the bleakest time of year 💙

Did you know that our name - the Snowdrop Project - was chosen in consultation with our clients? Snowdrops mark the first sign of spring emerging through the frozen soil. They may appear delicate, but snowdrops are strong and resilient, overcoming the harsh winter in order to bloom.

Find out more here: https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/