Welcome to the world's first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy
"Here, instead of sleeping pills and multivitamins, customers will be offered prescriptions of Derek Walcott and Elizabeth Bishop"
- Alison Flood, The Guardian.
The Emergency Poet – An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology is reissued, ten years after it first made its way into the hands and hearts of readers and edited by our own Deborah Alma.
Signed editions now available.
New arrival
Powerful and reassuring, this collection of poems and reflections from online sensation Dan Whitlam speaks to modern existential crises and the anxiety of modern life.
Signed Limited Edition paperback, plus Don't Settle pills, created with Dan & publisher Bonnier Books with lines taken from the book.
New arrival
Poetry Prescription - First Aid
For days when the world is too much with us;
for Immediate Reassurance and Remedies to Life the Spirits
First Aid Gift Box
Explore our gift box containing the new book, our unique bottle of Poemcetamol Pills and matching chocolate!
New arrival
Poetry Prescription - Inspiration
For Insights and bursts of Illumination;
Stimulants for Creative Awakening
Poetry collection chosen by Deborah Alma
New arrival
Life is lived with feeling - and these poems explore the healing power of nature.
Poetry Business School
How to do business better - with more collaboration, communication and creativity - and a beautiful gift of inspiring poetry.
Browse by Emotion ...
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The Poison Cabinet ☠️
Poetical Poison Pills: Shakespearean Curses (Large)
£13.95
Poetical Poison Pills: Curses & Maledictions (Large)
£13.95
Poetical Poison Pills: Shakespeare's Apothecary
£13.95
A Midnight Treasury of Macabre and Weird Poems
£22.95
NEW PRODUCT
A Room of One's Own - Book + Pill Bottle bundle
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf
A gorgeous book bundle, which includes this Vintage edition with its gorgeous endpapers and a bottle of our poetic medicine. Distillations of female genius; and for raging at the patriarchy.
• No bitter pills
• No adverse reactions
• Not to be swallowed (except metaphorically)
Browse our Poison Collection
Shakespearean Curses
Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass in it.
Troilus and Cressida
A Selection of Insults & Barbed Wit from the Bard
• Very bitter pills
• Guaranteed adverse reactions
• Not to be swallowed (except metaphorically)
Bestseller
First Aid Kit - Comfort
First Aid for times of great need;
a collection of three bottles of poetry pills: Comfort, Joy, and Hope.
To be used for the emergency application of beauty and solace in troubling moments
Store in bathroom cabinet, car, office, kitchen or bedside table
Festive First Aid
Christmas Spirit
Before the ice is in the pools —
Before the skaters go,
Or any check at nightfall
Is tarnished by the snow —
Before the fields have finished,
Before the Christmas tree,
Wonder upon wonder
Will arrive to me!
Emily Dickinson
Poetic remedies to lift the spirits.
A Distillation of Seasonal Accords; for Kindling a Light in Winter
• No bitter pills
• No adverse reactions
• Not to be swallowed (except metaphorically)
The School of Life
Self-Improvement: A Guided Journal for Vows, Goals & Aspirations
£18.98
Writing As Therapy Ideas For Self-Reflection
£18.00
Magnetic Poetry
Stationery
Self-Improvement: A Guided Journal for Vows, Goals & Aspirations
£18.98
Self-Improvement: A Guided Journal for Vows, Goals & Aspirations
£18.98
Writing As Therapy Ideas For Self-Reflection
£18.00
Writing As Therapy Ideas For Self-Reflection
£18.00
