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)
Edition Status: Out of Print
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 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 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.