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.
BISHOP'S CASTLE
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.
Opening hours:
Monday 10-4.00pm
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 10-4.00pm
Thursday 10-4.00pm
Friday 10-4.00pm
Saturday 10-4.00pm
Sunday 11-3.00pm
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.
OXFORD STREET
The Poetry Pharmacy has found a second 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.
Shop opening hours:
Monday to Saturday
10am to 9pm
Sunday 12pm to 6pm
Dispensary Coffee House opening hours:
Monday to Saturday
10am to 5pm
Sunday 12pm to 5pm
To find out more about our Oxford Street shop, click here.
Browse our online Poetry Pharmacy to find books chosen to address your mood or emotional ailment & have them delivered to your door. You can also buy most books in print from us too, supporting all indie bookshops at the same time.
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36 High Street Bishop's Castle Shropshire SY9 5BQ | 175-9 Oxford Street, London, W1D 2JS
