Poetry Poison: Darkness

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated poetic poisons compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. The Poetry Poisons are for when sweetness fails, offering a controlled dose of the less virtuous emotions, to be taken slowly and without apology. Extract of Night; For Howling to the Moon; For the Contemplation of Shadows & the Love of the Unlit; For the lifting of the veil between the real and the imagined. Poetry Poison: Darkness offers a profound journey into the deep night, featuring evocative verses of shadow, solitude, and the unknown. Includes poems from Emily Dickinson, John Keats and Thomas Hardy.

Deborah Alma is a poet and editor who, with her partner, the poet James Sheard, co-founded the world's first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire in 2019. Offering poetry on prescription, it has since expanded to branches in London's Oxford Street and York. As an editor, her books include the Poetry Prescription series, Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology and These Are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS. She is also co-author of The Poetry Business School. Her poetry collection Dirty Laundry is published by Nine Arches Press.