Deborah Alma
An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology
Price: £12.99
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 25/09/2025
ISBN: 9781789297782
Subject: Non-Fiction
Category: Language
Binding: Hardback
Size: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 192 pages
Territorial Rights: UK and Commonwealth ex Canada
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 25/09/2025
ISBN: 9781789298413
Subject: Non-Fiction
Category: Language
Size: EPUB 3
Extent: 192 pages
Territorial Rights: UK and Commonwealth ex Canada
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Enquire nowDeborah Alma] prescribes poems for all kinds of ills and this collection is a lovely read.
The Sun
Overcome the blues, stress and anxiety with this pick-me-up for the soul.
Woman's Weekly
This thoughtful and moving anthology distils her warmth and wisdom into "verse cures" aimed at a variety of ills from insomnia and stress to sadness and the burdens of grief, allowing readers to dip into their favourites as and when the mood takes them.
Lancashire Evening Post
Features poets new and old, including Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, Elaine Feinstein, Derek Walcott and Fleur Adcock.
Deborah Alma is the world’s first and only emergency poet, travelling in her vintage ambulance, prescribing poems to comfort and give hope. Her Poetry Pharmacy opened its second branch inside Lush Spa on Oxford Street in 2024.
Organized into sections that follow the challenges of life – from learning to be yourself, through to parenthood, coping with grief and death.
From the publishers of Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright (over 50,000 copies sold in the English language) and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (over 150,000 copies sold).
Beautifully packaged and published to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the first edition of The Emergency Poet.
Deborah Alma is a UK poet, editor and teacher. She has worked using poetry with people in hospice care with dementia, as well as with vulnerable women’s groups and children in schools, and she has lectured at both Worcester and Keele universities. From 2012 she was the Emergency Poet offering poetry on prescription from her vintage ambulance. She co-founded the world’s first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy bookshop in Shropshire with her partner the poet James Sheard in 2019. She is the editor of The Emergency Poet: An Anti-stress Poetry Anthology, The Everyday Poet, #Me Too: Rallying Against Sexual Harassment: A Women’s Poetry Anthology, Ten Poems of Happiness, and co-edited These Are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS with Dr Katie Amiel. She is the editor of National Trust: Nature Poems, Poetry Projects to Make and Do, Dirty Laundry, and the Poetry Prescription series. She is co-author of The Poetry Business School with Mark Constantine & Kate Downey-Evans.
