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.
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A Gift Box that thinks deeply
Spring remedies
Wild Remedy Collection
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
Margaret Atwood
Wild Remedy
For awakening the senses; to restore wonder
To be taken in moments of stillness beneath open sky
When the air softens and the earth begins again
Browse our Wild Remedy collection ; designed to soothe, ground, and reconnect you with the natural world.
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)
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Joy Pills
A bee settled
on a rose petal.
It sipped, and off it flew.
All in all, happiness too,
Is something little.
Trilussa
Poetic remedies to lift the spirits.
a Decoction of Delight to be taken in Small Doses
• No bitter pills
• No adverse reactions
• Not to be swallowed (except metaphorically)
The glass bottle contains 28 pill capsules, each containing a poetic extract on recycled paper.
Handmade in Bishops Castle, Shropshire.
All contents are biodegradable.