Newsletter

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...