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.

Many of us have a favourite tree. It may be one we remember from childhood a tree we loved to climb in or swing from or hide behind. Or perhaps its one of the ancient and majestic yews or oaks that stand sentinel in churchyards and on village greens, hardly seeming to change as the human years hurry by.

This beautiful selection celebrates the glory and mystery of all manner of trees fromDavid Constantinesapple tree clothed in frost toAlistair Elliotsbirch waving its delicate hair in the breeze.

Im thankful to the trees outside my window saysMoniza Alviat the beginning of her quietly rhapsodic poem of the same name. This is tree-love of the everyday kind the simple pleasure of looking out on a garden from which familiar trees look back. We can almost imagine theyre keeping us company.

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