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Deborah Alma

The Emergency Poet

An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 01/10/2015

ISBN: 9781782434054

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Language

Binding: Hardback

Size: Other

Extent: 192 pages

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

Edition Status: Out of Print

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Summary:

A brilliant new anthology of poems that will help you to overcome stress, depression and other anxieties.

Arranged by spiritual ailment, the sections include a range of verse, new and old, which may be of comfort to those in need of a pick-me-up for the soul.

The collection has been carefully compiled by Deborah Alma, the world's first and only emergency poet, who travels to schools, libraries, festivals and other events in her 1970s ambulance to offer consultations and prescribe poems as cures for various maladies.

This collection is designed to lift your mood and offers poetic help whenever it may be required.

Other poetry collections include The Everyday Poet: Poems to Live By.

Reviews:

Overcome stress, feeling low and other anxieties with The Emergency Poet

Top Sante Magazine

She prescribes poems for all kinds of ills and this collection is a lovely read.

The Sun

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 favorites as and when the mood takes them.

Lancashire Evening Post

Overcome the blues, stress and anxiety with this pick-me-up for the soul.

Woman's Weekly Magazine

Sales points:

  • A wonderful and varied collection of poems designed to improve your mood

  • Compiled by Deborah Alma, the world's first and only emergency poet. She travels in her 1970s ambulance, prescribing poems to comfort, purge melancholy, provide hope and give courage

  • With sections on love, getting older, grief and self-acceptance

  • Features poets new and old, including William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Jane Hirshfield, Elaine Feinstein and May Sarton

  • From the publishers of Tyger Tyger Burning Bright (over 30,000 copies sold) and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

About the Author:

Deborah Alma

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 with Dr Katie Amiel These Are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS. 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.

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