Updates – Candlestick Press – 'Instead of a card' poetry pamphlets

Three front covers of the Almanac 2026 poetry pamphlet on a decorative background

Twelve beautiful poems to keep you company through the year

Twelve beautiful poems for the months of the year: poems for birthdays, for special anniversaries, poems to simply say “I’m thinking of you this month, and isn’t nature wonderful?”. Our […]

Three front covers of the Christmas Tree poetry pamphlet on a decorative background

Poems capturing the magic of a much-loved festive tradition

Many of us still love the tradition of decorating a Christmas tree to bring the light indoors during the darkest days of winter. This festive mini-anthology captures their special magic, […]

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

A journey through England’s most north-westerly county

Cumbria is a place of fellside and farmland, of lakes, saltmarsh and rugged coastlines. To the north lies the vast Solway Plain which looks across to Scotland. The poems in […]

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

Celebrating the history and beauty of the north east

Northumberland is border country – a place of ballads and battles and windswept beaches where grand castles stand sentinel. This mini anthology celebrates the wild beauty of the county’s landscapes, […]

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September 2025

Twelve beautiful poems to keep you company through the year

Poems capturing the magic of a much-loved festive tradition

A journey through England’s most north-westerly county

Celebrating the history and beauty of the north east

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