Candlestick Press

06/01/2026

Submissions now open — deadline midnight Friday 23rd January 2026

In our first open submission window, we’re looking for poems to appear in Ten Poems about Allotments, a mini-anthology exploring the joys of growing fruit and veg for your own table or to share with family and friends.

Your poem can be published or unpublished, as long as you retain the copyright. There’s no fee to enter but your poem must be your own original writing (ie no help from AI).

More information here, including how to submit:

Ten Poems about Allotments

01/01/2026

"darkness turned into light"

✨We want to wish you all joy, peace and light on Christmas Eve with this beautiful poem 'Once Upon a Christmas Eve' by Olga Dermott-Bond from Candlestick Press' Christmas Tree anthology.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year to all our readers, stockists, poets and artists! If you haven’t received our first email newsletter of 2026, please sign up to receive them in future as we’ve lots of exciting things happening this year, including our brand new themed competition https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/competitions/ and some thoughtful and positive reflections over on our blog https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/blog/new-year-new-poems/

Wishing you nothing but good things for the year ahead, from all the Candlestickers!

18/12/2025

Candlestick Press September 2026 My thanks to the publisher form my copy of this pamphlet Twelve beautiful poems for the months of the year...

01/12/2025

New on our blog!

What makes a good Christmas poem? Here at Candlestick we think we have a fairly good idea, having published no fewer than 21 festive titles containing poems old and new on a huge range of seasonal ...

29/11/2025

13/11/2025

We’ve revised and refreshed three of our most popular titles. Each contains new poems and has a beautiful new cover by a contemporary British artist. We think they’re even more irresistible than they were before!

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk

29/10/2025

With a wag and a sniff! Poems full of mischief, fun and loving companionship in our new edition of Ten Poems about Dogs available today:

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

The dogs that sniff and scamper their way through the pages of this mini-anthology are of all shapes and sizes. There are hairy dogs, wonky dogs, corgis and pugs. There’s a puppy that loves to swim in the sea and a dog that barks all day until its owners come home again.

We can’t help loving dogs, even when their mischief exasperates us. In one poem, we hear a dog describing its unsociable antics in a voice that’s humorously confident of its owner’s unconditional love:

“I know you love me. Oh yes you do!
Just look at my big brown eyes gazing at you.”

from ‘Corgi’ by Carole Bromley

The poems celebrate the mild mayhem that owning a dog brings, as well as the many moments of fun, companionship and joy. They demonstrate that dogs are indeed “a miniature illumination” in our human lives.

Poems by Herbert Asquith, Carole Bromley, Jeanette Burton, Jane Burn, Billy Collins, Jehanne Dubrow, Vince Foxall, Caleb Parkin, Siegfried Sassoon and Stevie Smith.

Cover illustration by Sam Cannon.

Donation to Dogs Trust.

26/09/2025

Reminder for our fabulous free Regional Showcase this Sunday!

Over 40 poets reading poems of place - expect history and wild landscapes, as well as local dialect and some familiar much-loved landmarks.

Please join us - all welcome.

Candlestick Press REGIONAL SHOWCASE – Zoom, Sun 28 Sep 2025 - Sunday 28th September 20256:30 PM BST Online Zoom Free event – please register A celebration of the poetry of place Join us for an online event to celebrate the publica...

17/09/2025

Four more new titles arriving today! For Christmas, for the new year ahead, for people who love the UK’s beautiful borderlands:

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/christmas-tree-ten-poems-of-wishes-and-lights/

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/almanac-twelve-poems-for-2026/

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten-poems-from-cumbria/

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten-poems-from-northumberland/

14/09/2025

Poetry | Ten Poems from Norfolk, selected and introduced by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura, with cover illustration by Louise Stebbing. I have lived in Norfolk all my life, and yes, it is flat, but it is also wildly beautiful, made up of so many different habitats, lots of coastline and big, big skies. From the Brecks to the Broads we've got a rich variety of wildlife, and from the busy city to the quiet countryside, there's always somewhere for us to get away for a quiet peaceful walk.

This poetry collection speaks to all of this and more. From the Strangers arriving hundreds of years ago to dye and weave, to the newcomers welcomed. From the flint of the walls and churches to the water crisscrossing and surrounding the county. Bootiful.

These little books come with a matching bookmark, and an envelope so they can be given instead of a card. A perfect way to celebrate any occasion, whole giving the gift of poetry.

It's all about Stories ~ promoting the power of poetry.

Published by Candlestick Press Find out more here - https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten-poems-from-norfolk/

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