Comfort

Poetry Pharmacy: Comfort , is a gorgeous poetry collection in The Poetry Pharmacy series, compiled by Deborah Alma. Poetry Pharmacy: Comfort offers an array of poems to help you find s olace for times of Ill-health, loss and grief. It will help you to promote recovery, with verse to comfort you in times of great need, to counteract sorrow. Perfect for fortitude and steadfastness, for weathering the storm Perfect for reading aloud or holding in your soul, this book is the much needed antidote to our lives.

Auteur

Deborah Alma is a UK poet and editor. She has worked using poetry with people with dementia, in hospice care, with women’s groups and with children in schools. 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 and in June 2024 opened a second Poetry Pharmacy inside the Lush Spa on Oxford Street.

She is editor of Emergency Poet-an anti-stress poetry anthology, #Me Too – rallying against sexual harassment- a women’s poetry anthology, Ten Poems of Happiness from Candlestick Press, The National Trust Book of Nature Poems and Poetry Projects to Make and Do, and co-edited with Dr Katie Amiel These Are the Hands-Poems from the Heart of the NHS. Her collection Dirty Laundry is published by Nine Arches Press.

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A small but significant, inspiring anthology from Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy.

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A small but significant, inspiring anthology from Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy.