Candlestick Press is a small, independent press publishing beautiful Instead of a card poetry pamphlets. Based in Nottingham in the UK, weve been making our mini-anthologies since 2008 and have now sold over 915,000 titles which means that weve shared over nine million poems with our readers all over the world.

A beautiful and intriguing anthology of poems selected byMahendra Solanki.His choices capture the many ways in which we experience that unique sense of beingat home. There are poems that evoke the daily furniture of our lives and others that echo with the memories of a childhood spent far away.

Contemporary poems rub shoulders with more traditional selections to create a haunting sense of what it means to belong.

WB Yeatsfamous poem of longing (evoked in the bewitching cover image created especially for Candlestick bySarah Kirby) encapsulates the abiding spirit of the selection and something we all instinctively feel that home is a place we carry with us always in the deep hearts core.

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

from The Lake Isle of Innisfree by WB Yeats

Our pamphlets are supplied with an envelope for posting, a bookmark for a special message and an Instead of a card sticker to seal the back of the envelope for a lovely finishing touch.

Paperback | 20 printed pages