Candlestick Press – Sabotage

Anthology Pamphlets Poetry

A Candle to Light you to Bed: Four Candlestick Press Pamphlets

August 13, 2015August 12, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Allison McVety, angela topping, Anne Finch, Anne Stevenson, Byron, Candlestick Press, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher James, Don Paterson, Emily Dickinson, Germaine Greer, Gillian Clarke, Gwynneth Lewis, Henry Howard, Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay, Jane Durcan, Jessie Pope, John Agard, John Donne, Kate Clanchy, Kathleen Raine, Liz Lochhead, Lydia Towsey, Maura Dooley, Roy Marshall, Sue Dymock, Sylvia Plath, Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume Two), Ten Poems About Babies, Ten Poems about Knitting, Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Tennyson, W. H. Auden, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth

– Reviewed by Angela Topping – Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare Ten Poems about Babies Ten Poems about Knitting Ten

Anthology Pamphlets Poetry

Thirteen Poems of Revenge introduced by Sophie Hannah

July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Candlestick Press, Dorothy Parker, Gill Learner, Harry Graham, Jack Powers, James O'Leary, Sophie Hannah, Stephen Dobyns, Thirteen Poems of Revenge, Wendy Cope

– Reviewed by James O’Leary – Thirteen Poems of Revenge is a small staple bound pamphlet, visually inviting and well crafted. The

Anthology Pamphlets Poetry Translation

In Memoriam: Poems of Bereavement introduced by Carol Ann Duffy

June 29, 2015June 27, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Adrian Mitchell, Bereavement, Billy Collins, Candlestick Press, Carol Ann Duffy, Catullus, Christina Rossetti, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Edna St Vincent Millay, Elegy, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Faith Lawrence, Goethe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, In Memoriam: Poems of Bereavement, John McCrae, Laurence Binyon, Penelope Shuttle, Robert Burns, Simon Zonenblick, Sue Millard, Thomas Gray, William Shakespeare

– Reviewed by Simon Zonenblick – In Memoriam includes a considerable number of poems which are so well known that

Anthology Pamphlets Poetry

Ten Poems About Aunts ed. by Anne Harvey, & Ten Bedtime Poems (vol. 1), ed. by William Boyd

June 16, 2015June 14, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Anne Harvey, Candlestick Press, Christine Webb, Elizabeth Bishop, Emma Lee, Jamie McKendrick, Langston Hughes, Medbh McGuckian, Philip Larkin, T. S. Eliot, Ten Bedtime Poems, Ten Poems About Aunts, Virginia Graham, W. H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, William Boyd

– Reviewed by Emma Lee – Part of Candlestick Press’ Ten Poems… pamphlet series, Ten Poems about Aunts looks to counteract the bad

Anthology Poetry Translation

Ten Poems From Wales, ed. by Gillian Clarke

June 14, 2015June 14, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Alun Lewis, Anthony Conran, Candlestick Press, Gillian Clarke, Hedd Wyn, Paul Henry, R. S. Thomas, Robert Mchinnick, Samantha Wynne Rhydderch, Simon Zonenblick, Ten Poems from Wales

– Reviewed by Simon Zonenblick – Gillian Clarke’s presentation of Ten Poems From Wales, spanning fourteen centuries, is actually a selection

Anthology Poetry Seasonal/End of year

Twelve Slanted Poems for Christmas (ed. by Helen Ivory and Kate Birch)

December 3, 2013 Editor Andrea Holland, angela topping, Bethany W. Pope, Bobby Parker, Candlestick Press, Carol Ann Duffy, Carrie Etter, Doctor Who, George Szirtes, Helen ivory, Ink Sweat and Tears, Ira Lightman, Julia Webb, Kate Birch, Luke Wright, Moniza Alvi, Penelope Shuttle, Tim Turnbull, W.N. Herbert, William Morris

-Reviewed by Angela Topping– Twelved Slanted Poems for Christmas is the very first publication by the popular webzine, Ink Sweat