Deborah Alma

The Everyday Poet

Poems to Live By

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 06/10/2016

ISBN: 9781782436577

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Language

Binding: Hardback

Size: 198 x 129 mm

Extent: 192 pages

Territorial Rights: UK and Commonwealth ex Canada

Edition Status: Out of Print

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Summary:

A thoughtful and varied collection of feel-good poems perfect for any day and any situation.

This brand-new anthology holds up a mirror to our own lives, and is designed to tackle your everyday needs: whether work is getting you down, you need a moment to relax, you’re having trouble sleeping or need a little romantic guidance, this book has a poem for you.

Each poem has been carefully selected by editor Deborah Alma, the world’s first and only emergency poet, who travels in her 1970s ambulance to schools, libraries and festivals to offer consultations and prescribe poems as cures for various maladies: to comfort, purge melancholy, provide hope and give courage.

This collection will lift your mood and brighten your day, offering poetic help wherever it is needed.

Other poetry collections include The Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology.

Sales points:

  • Use each poem to brighten your day, no matter where you are or how you’re feeling

  • Featuring poets from all eras, including John Keats, William Wordsworth, D. H. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, Jane Kenyon and Seamus Heaney

  • Also showcases the works of some lesser-known new talents

  • From the editor and publisher of The Emergency Poet

  • Published to coincide with National Poetry Day

About the Author:

Deborah Alma

Deborah Alma is a UK poet, editor and bookseller. 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, poet James Sheard, in 2019, which now has a second branch inside Lush Spa on Oxford Street in London.

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