January Newsletter 01/18/2026

Live your life of letters this Valentine’s Day   Dear Friends of the Press, It may seem a bit early to plan for Valentines Day. But it’s not. Don’t be that person who on the afternoon of February 14th, is scrambling to figure out a gift for the person you love. Plan ahead. This Valentine’s Day Thornwillow is here to help you and yours live a life of letters.   Ideal gifts that you can order now and have in hand before Valentine’s Day include beautiful volumes of emotional and inspiring poetry and prose, beautifully printed broadsides, boxed correspondence papers, and our engraved 2026 calendar which will remind the recipient of you and your love every day of the year.   Shakespeare reminds us that “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” Keep your love steady by planning ahead and ordering a beautiful gift from Thornwillow.   With highest regards from the Press,   Luke Ives Pontifell   Gifts from Thornwillow Press   FOR YOUR VALENTINE   World Enough and Time   Containing 14 exquisite love poems from the 16th and 17th centuries—some of the greatest love poems of any age—including works by authors such as Aphra Behn, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, and even Queen Elizabeth I herself (plus many more). With beauty and grace (and more than a little humor), these iconic works remind us that even now, as ever, there is nothing better in life than to love and be loved.   World Enough and Time 20 Love Poems and A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda   One of the greatest collections of love poems ever written. If you know them, we are sure you love them. If they are unfamiliar, read them now. In either case, we encourage you to share Pablo Neruda’s iconic collection beautifully translated by W.S Merwin with someone you love this Valentine’s Day.   20 Love Poems and A Song of Despair Valentine’s Day Correspondence Box   The Valentine’s Day Box offers the perfect assortment of engraved and individually hand stamped correspondence cards and accompanying tissue lined envelopes. The heavy archival stock is a joy to write on and a pleasure to receive. Each box comes with 30 cards and envelopes and a hand bound pocket journal. Valentines Day Correspondence Box Poetry Broadside Collection   The Poetry Collection comes with 16 letterpress printed broadsides in a signature Thornwillow portfolio box. The Broadside Collection features short works by the world’s greatest poets.  Letterpress printed on archival paper stock:   001 Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 004 Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 005 Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll 006 Portrait of a Lady by William Carlos Williams 007 Art by Herman Melville  008 Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare 011 Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 020 Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare 021 Sonnet 17 by William Shakespeare 025 Visit from St. Nick by Clement C. Moore 034 Immer Wieder (Again & Again) by Rainer Maira Rilke 035 Mein Liebchen (My Lovely) by Heinrich Heine 036 April by Wolfgang Goethe 022 A Song of Springtime by Yoshizawa Kengyo II 044 The Sheep by Ellis Parker Butler 045 The Tyger by William Blake POETRY BROADSIDE COLLECTION Elizabeth Browning’s SONNET 43   This limited edition, letterpress printed scroll is suitable for framing and features Elizabeth Browning’s iconic poem of love and dedication. This is an essential gift to give to the person you love. No words of love can surpass those presented here.   How do I love thee, let me count the ways… Sonnet 43   How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Presented in our Archival Metal Edge Box Poetry Scroll   2026 THORNWILLOW DESK CALENDAR is the ideal Valentine’s Day gift that will remind  the recipient of your love every day of the year.     We are thrilled to report that our 2026 Engraved Calendar is here. This is one of our favorite calendars since we started making them 14 years ago.   The 12 new designs of the 2026 Thornwillow Desk Calendar will bring you a year of surprise and delight. Each design motif is engraved in copper and individually hand stamped in gold on heavy archival stock. Each card is edge stained in gold and passes through the press four times. The creation of these calendars takes over a year of design, planning, and meticulous craftsmanship.   Not only do our calendars help you keep track of time, the unique designs bring elegance and wit to every day of your year. Order your calendar with an optional heavy brass presentation easel. These display easels are the optimal way to showcase and make accessible each engraved calendar month.   2026 CALENDARS   The next  Thornwillow Dispatch   The Romantic Imagination   Poems by   Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley & Keats   A fragment of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Kabula Khan Subscribe to the Thornwillow Dispatch   FEATURED POEMS:   WILLIAM WORDSWORTH   I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Surprised by Joy   SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE   Kubla Khan Frost at Midnight   LORD BYRON   She Walks in Beauty When We Two Parted So, We’ll Go No More a-Roving   PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY   Ozymandias Love’s Philosophy Music, When Soft Voices Die (To —) Ode to the West Wind   JOHN KEATS   Bright Star Ode to a Nightingale To Autumn Ode on a Grecian Urn   Subscribe to the Thornwillow Dispatch   The poets presented in this collection first appeared not as a “school” but as a succession of striking, sometimes controversial voices in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Their poems emerged in slim volumes, magazines, and occasional books that did not yet know they were founding what we now call “English Romanticism.” Only later did readers come to see Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats as participants in a shared transformation of poetry.   The story begins, in a formal sense, with Lyrical Ballads, first published anonymously in 1798. That small volume, largely by Wordsworth with key contributions from Coleridge, quietly altered the course of English verse. The poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge in this volume—Tintern Abbey, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan—all bear the mark of that program: intense feeling disciplined by thought, and everyday or inward experience raised to visionary clarity.   The next generation appeared in a very different atmosphere. Byron became a European celebrity almost overnight with Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. His shorter lyrics, such as She Walks in Beauty and When We Two Parted, circulated widely in songbooks and gift editions, fusing personal emotion with a public, almost theatrical poise. Shelley, often controversial in his politics and religion, published his poems in relatively small editions, admired in radical and literary circles more than by the broad public. Keats, by contrast, never knew great popularity in his own lifetime. The 1820 volume that contained his odes was coolly received, and hostile reviews contributed to the legend of a young poet cut off too soon. Only later in the nineteenth century did his reputation rise to its current height.   Subscribe to the Thornwillow Dispatch The Romantic Imagination is available for subscription now until January 31st, 2026 at 7pm EST in three letterpress printed limited editions:   Classic Edition: Copies bound in letterpress paper wrappers Patrons’ Edition: Volumes featuring deluxe paste paper wrappers Centaur Patrons’ Edition: Hardbound in cloth and decorative paste paper boards*   Patrons’ and Centaur Patrons’ Editions will also be individually numbered and signed by the publisher.   *Available only to Centaur Patron subscribers of the Thornwillow Dispatch Classic Edition Patrons’ Edition Centaur Patrons’ Edition The Thornwillow Dispatch is printed lettterpress on heavy archival paper, hand bound, and available in one of three collectible editions. As with every Dispatch, copies will be made to order for subscribers this month only. When the presses stop on this edition, the edition size will be set and no additional copies made.   Subscribe by January 31st to reserve your copy. Subscribe to the Thornwillow Dispatch   THE THORNWILLOW DISPATCH Choose individual titles from our ongoing series to build your own gift cornucopia of love.   Explore the full library of 78 Thornwillow Dispatch Titles The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant Cellists  by Kazuo Ishiguro The Massacre at Mount Pitcairn by Joyce Carol Oates Bartleby, the Scrivener  by Herman Melville At Our Age by Honor Moore On Stupidity by Robert Musil Chloe’s Scene by Jay McInerney   Remembering Groucho by Dick Cavett   Attention Please by Kwame Anthony Appiah Thornwillow Dispatch   As a reminder, we are keeping the Status page of our website up to date as we progress with our Ulysses, Charlotte’s Web, and Dispatch production.   With gratitude and highest regards from the press. 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