The world's first ever Poetry Pharmacy offering walk-in prescriptions, literary gifts, and books to address your every emotional ailment.  Visit our beautiful Victorian shop in the small town of Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, to browse the bookshop or pause in the Dispensary Café to be prescribed coffees, tisanes, sodas & sherbets to lift the spirits.

December opening hours: Open Monday & Wednesday to Saturday  10am to 5pm and Sunday 11am to 3pm.  Please note the cafe closes half an hour before the bookshop, except on Sundays.

To browse the events taking place in Bishop's Castle, click here.

The wait is over, and our new Poetry Pharmacy has found its home on the first floor of Lush's Oxford Street Spa!  It stocks a specially curated range of books and other literary artefacts for the restoration of the self, and has its own Dispensary Coffee House serving coffee from our local roasters Hundred House Coffee and delicious cakes.

Open Monday to Saturday 10am to 9pm and 12pm to 6pm on Sundays.  Dispensary Coffee House 10am to 6pm, and 12pm to 6pm on Sundays.

To find out more about our Oxford Street shop, click here.