Poetry Prescription: Inspiration

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated prescriptions in verse compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - and these poems will bring you inspiration. Includes poems by William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Edward Thomas, W. B. Yeats, William Shakespeare and many more. The Poetry Prescription series is the perfect antidote for life's ailments. Inspired by the achingly cool Poetry Pharmacy shops in London and Shropshire - social media favourites with a clear focus on promoting wellbeing through the written and spoken word. Each of the 8 themed titles offers an array of poems to inspire, heal and comfort. Whether readers are looking to find solace for times of ill-health, loss and grief, cope with matters of the heart, need poetic inspiration for courage and confidence, or want to find peace and tranquillity in wild spaces, there is a collection for everyone. Perfect for reading aloud or for quiet contemplation, these books are a much needed balm for our busy lives.

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.