Newsletter

07/04/2025- sometimes, when you spill lemons
Everyday WonderThis week our newsletter comes at a time, where as Poetry Pharmacists we are being asked for poetry prescriptions for navigating the world when it seems particularly dark and uncertain, or for trying to make sense of it. There is such a seeming dissonance between enjoying the beautiful clear sunny Spring days we're having here in the UK, and the news. How can we still take pleasure in these small things, the new growth on the apple tree, or the birds returning to make their nests? And is it still possible... Read more...
28/03/2025- She asked me if she took one pill...
'Big Pharma' in Shropshire! This week's big Poetry Pharmacy news is our move to an industrial unit just outside of town, where we can expand our pharmaceutical operations. Production of our prescription meds has outgrown the little lab we opened a year ago, and our airy new space will ensure we can keep well stocked for future poetic emergencies. We're very happy that little lines of poetry are getting into so many hands.   The Art of Medicine with Deb AlmaOur Chief Poetry Pharmacist Deb Alma was invited to speak to an audience of medical practitioners... Read more...
21/03/2025- Spring has me astir, brimming with gratitude
Happy World Poetry Day! Every day is poetry day at the Poetry Pharmacy and we are enjoying some the first stirrings of Spring here at the Poetry Pharmacy. This week's Spring Equinox was full of sunshine, and the cheerfulness of daffodils on the hillsides and rural lanes in Shropshire. And we can't help but feel a little more hopeful and energetic with the returning of the light.NewsOur exciting news this week is the arrival of the first copies of the latest Poetry Prescription titles, Wild Remedy and Becoming.These two beautiful pocket-sized gift books contain carefully... Read more...
15/03/2025- with her habit of colour, her habit of light
The sky was like a blue nest with white feathers And the sun was the mother bird keeping it warm      Katherine Mansfield Sunday 30 March is Mother's Day Mothers, motherhood, mother figures and being mothered are themes long celebrated in poetry. At our Poetry Pharmacies in Bishop's Castle and Oxford Street, we have a range of beautiful books, art cards and poetic remedies for the mothers and nurturing women in our lives.Mother’s Day can be complex for many, whether due to loss, strained relationships, or personal circumstances. At the Poetry Pharmacy we honor... Read more...
08/03/2025- A woman who follows her own trail
In which our poetry pharmacists offer words of wisdom for making meaningful connection…Welcome to the Poetry Pharmacy's newsletter!  Here you will find upcoming events, new and featured books, poems, prescriptions, and panaceas.  To business that we love we rise betime,And go to 't with delight.William Shakespeare, from Antony and CleopatraOur most exciting news this week is the launch of Chief Poetry Pharmacist’s Deb Alma’s latest title, The Poetry Business School.Sharing poetry is what brought about an impromptu friendship between Mark Constantine and Poetry Pharmacy’s founder Deb Alma. When the Poetry Pharmacy made it to the... Read more...
02/03/2025- And you have come into the world to do this...
In which our poetry pharmacists celebrate the poems and professionals that restore us...Welcome to the Poetry Pharmacy's newsletter!  Here you will find upcoming events, new and featured books, poems, prescriptions, and panaceas.  Let the beauty we love be what we do  - There are hundreds of ways to Kneel and kiss the ground       Rumi Poetic Remedies to Lift the Spirits Salve for the Soul; for Resistance to Burnout & the Promotion of a Hopeful and Healed Future This week in the UK, the sun has been shining brightly, offering a... Read more...
21/02/2025- This morning, love, I am tired and grave
In which our Poetry Pharmacists find curatives for days when the world is too much with us...Welcome to the Poetry Pharmacy's newsletter!  Here you will find upcoming events, new and featured books, poems, prescriptions, and panaceas.  This week's newsletter comes after a week of dark weather here in the UK and unsettling news in the world. We hope our small and generally cheerful news and the sharing of poetry will shine a little light at a dark time. February began with our Chief Poetry Pharmacist, Deborah Alma speaking at the glorious Gladstone’s Library, for Hearth,... Read more...
29/01/2025- if I pause as I do now
Welcome to the Poetry Pharmacy's newsletter!  Here you will find upcoming events, new and featured books, poems, prescriptions, and panaceas.  On Friday we celebrated the publication of the first of our Poetry Prescription series, Comfort and Words for Love , edited by our own Chief Poetry Pharmacist Deborah Alma, at a launch party at the Poetry Pharmacy on Oxford Street. There were readings by the fabulous Imtiaz Dharker, our own co-founder James Sheard, and Oxford Street booksellers Patrizia Longhitano, Katie Dunstan and Héloïse de Satgé. We think we managed to convert a few guests to the efficacious... Read more...
16/01/2025- a kind of weary happiness
Welcome to the Poetry Pharmacy's newsletter!  Here you will find upcoming events, new and featured books, poems, prescriptions, and panaceas.  We're delighted to see the first of our two Poetry Prescription series  appearing in bookshops all over the UK over the last few days even though they are officially published next week. We now stock them in both Poetry Pharmacy bookshops and our website. They aren't available in the US until May but we're happy to ship them from here.Poetry Prescription - ComfortPoetry Prescription - Words for LoveWe may be... Read more...
08/01/2025- did my heart fly to your service
Welcome to the Poetry Pharmacy's newsletter!  Here you will find upcoming events, new and featured books, poems, prescriptions, and panaceas. A very warm welcome to our new subscribers- many of whom have found us through a little news feature on NBC. We send out a newsletter every couple of weeks and won't bother you too much. Here you'll find news about our business, events and of course a little poetry. We have made a new bottle of poetic posie,  Shakespeare & Love, featuring some of the Bard's most beautiful or wry tinctures on the... Read more...
22/12/2024 - Merry Christmas from the Poetry Pharmacy
We have had an extraordinary year here at the Poetry Pharmacy. Opening our second pharmacy on Oxford Street has led to lots of amazing attention and we have had to grow very fast to meet the demand. It's been an exhilarating ride, often terrifying, but we've come through and we couldn't have done it without you! We're very proud to have put good quality poetry into the hands of so many more people. We'd like to wish you the most wonderful holiday season.Merry Christmas to you! Love Deb & Jim and the... Read more...