The Lamplight Press

We are a recently established small printing press, delivering both classic + contemporary literature into your hands. 📖🌟🕯

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Recent episodes on R.L.Stevenson's fables, Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and Ovid's Metamorphoses 🎧📚

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Check out @underLamplight Evening Under Lamplight Podcast, bringing new insights, life + meaning to literary classics.

Now on Substack! #thelamplightpress #learningforpleasure

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You can now find Chris's poetry collection 'Holding It Together' at local bookseller, Harts in Saffron Walden ✨

#supportlocal #hartsbookshop #thelamplightpress

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📢 Interested in Robert Louis Stevenson's little known fables?

Free online talk today at 3pm given by the author of Aesop in the Fog, @rlabrahamson1 @underLamplight.

Reserve a spot now!
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Christina's poems often draw on childhood memories which have made a deep impression on her.

Pondskater recreates a sense of unreality + realisation of the fragility of life after a near-death experience. #thelamplightpress

📷Picture at the original pond in Linton Pocket Park

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🎧Hear an excerpt from Chris Buckton's new book, Holding It Together. #thelamplightpress

This poem draws on her childhood surrounded by jackdaws which seemed to have followed her life ever since.🐦

https://t.co/fiKDO3haCE

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A fantastic screening of Sally Connie Todd's film about Chris Buckton's life + #poetry in Elspeth's #Grantchester pottery studio this Saturday.

Wonderful to see the words brought to life through moving images🎬✨

Discover Chris Buckton's book here:
https://t.co/fiKDO3gCN6

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Psst. You can now buy copies of Chris's poetry book Holding It Together in the @galleryabove in Linton, Cambridgeshire! #thelamplightpress #lintonpoetry🌻

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A fantastic talk by @rlabrahamson1 on Robert Louis Stevenson's little-known fables✨

If you’ve read our collection of Stevenson’s fables or are interested in buying a copy, give this a listen! 🎧

https://t.co/HLafvwXUdI

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A snippet from Pondskater, a poem from Christina Buckton's poetry collection Holding It Together. #thelamplightpress 🕯

The poems take inspiration from Chris's life + childhood, turning over old memories like pebbles in a stream.

Read more here:
https://t.co/fiKDO3gCN6

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A snippet from one of Robert Louis Stevenson's little known fables, read by @rlabrahamson1✨

The fable explores the fault-lines between identity + belief with skilful irony + compassion. Read more of these fables in Aesop in the Fog. #thelamplightpress🕯

https://t.co/W33H7uxW4V

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You can read her poems + find out more about Christina Buckton here:
https://t.co/fiKDO3ydEE

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After a long + varied career, Christina, author of Holding It Together, has returned to her childhood village of Linton near Cambridge where she lives with her husband, lurcher + solitary surviving bantam.
She has only started writing poetry in her eighties! #thelamplightpress

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You can find out more about Robert-Louis and his book, Aesop in the Fog here:
https://t.co/W33H7uxW4V

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Meet @rlabrahamson1, whose book, Aesop in the Fog, provides astute commentary on his namesake, Robert Louis Stevenson's little known fables.
RSA has written + given talks on many aspects of Stevenon's works and writes as one interested reader to another. #thelampightpress 🕯

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@poetrycandle @natpoetrylib @SuffolkPoetrySo @PoetrySociety @CambWriters Thankyou!

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Excerpt from Christina Buckton's poem 'Unbidden'. #thelamplightpress 🕯

You can read her full poem + many others in this astounding debut anthology, Holding It Together:
https://t.co/fiKDO3gCN6

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Introducing Holding It Together, a collection of lyric #poems by award-winning Cambridge poet Christina Buckton.

A captivating new voice in poetry looking back over the poet's life + childhood with quiet wisdom and warmth. 🌿 #thelamplightpress

https://t.co/fiKDO3gCN6

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It’s #Scotlandsyearofstories 📚🏰

And who better to look to for unforgettable storytelling than one of the best Scottish novelists in our literature, Robert Louis Stevenson?

Discover Stevenson’s little known fables here:
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https://t.co/W33H7uxW4V

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One of many little-known fables from master story-teller Robert Louis Stevenson.

You can read more of these fables, alongside perceptive commentary from Robert-Louis Abrahamson, in our recent publication, Aesop in the Fog. #thelamplightpress

https://t.co/W33H7uxW4V