Deborah Alma
An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology
Price: £10.99
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)
Trade
Effortlessly manage bulk orders with us, simply enquire for pricing and detailed information. Our team is ready to ensure a smooth process for you.
Enquire nowOvercome 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
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
Deborah Alma is a UK poet, editor and bookseller. She has worked using poetry with people with dementia, in hospice care, with women’s groups and with children in schools and taught 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 in Shropshire with her partner the poet James Sheard in 2019, which now has a second branch inside Lush Spa on Oxford Street in London. She is editor of #Me Too: rallying against sexual harassment, a women’s poetry anthology, Ten Poems of Happiness from Candlestick Press, and co-edited with Dr Katie Amiel These Are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS. She is also editor of The National Trust’s Nature Poems. Her first full collection of poems Dirty Laundry is published by Nine Arches Press. She is co-author with Mark Constantine of The Poetry Business School and is editor of the Poetry Pharmacy series with Macmillan, in 2025.
