Stop Press! ‘Ten Poems about Tea’ is Poetry Book of the Month
Published on Monday 14 March 2011
The Observer journalist Kate Kellaway has featured Ten Poems about Tea as her Poetry Book of the Month (The Observer, 13 March 2011). She describes it as “delightful” and “…the greatest fun: the afternoon equivalent of a pub crawl – a tea-party totter – in which each brew is different and the cast keeps changing.” Her lovely review makes clear that the poetry of tea is a great leveller; poets great and less well known stand, if not shoulder to shoulder, then tea-cup to tea-cup, united by a common cause. Thank you, Kate Kellaway, for knowing your Gunpowder from your Assam and sharing these moments of “tea-drinking togetherness” with readers of The Observer.
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Instead of a bunch!
Published on Friday 7 February 2020
A bouquet is a welcome and beautiful thing, but the beauty is inevitably short-lived. However, this delightful mini-anthology – published just in time for Valentine’s Day – is guaranteed never to wither. Roses, fritillaries, daisies, gentians and the humble ragwort are celebrated here by poets ranging from Mimi Khalvati to William Wordsworth. We experience their […]
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In no particular order…
love, flowers, sex and marriage
Published on Wednesday 5 February 2020
This Valentine’s Day Candlestick has something for everyone from the newly-besotted to the long-and-happily married. Our revised edition of Ten Poems about Love (selected and introduced by Lorraine Mariner) calls at every stop on love’s roller-coaster journey with poets old and new from Tennyson to Sinéad Morrissey. Hot off the press is our ‘instead of […]
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A record year for Candlestick Press
Published on Wednesday 22 January 2020
Candlestick has just achieved its best-ever year, with 2019 sales a dramatic 34% up on 2018. We sold 101,475 poetry pamphlets in a year which saw the launch of 12 new titles. This record performance was underpinned by some resounding commercial successes; our top seller was Ten Poems about Walking with sales of over 5,000 […]
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