Consultations
Alternative therapy for your emotional ailments via poetry prescription.
Deborah Alma ‘I think the combination of being carefully listened to; being taken to idealised places through the ‘consultation’, putting your feet up on the chaise longue and then having a hand-picked poem is always a winning combination. Everyone loves it; it has an effect both light and profound.’
How it works
In person consultations are only available in the Bishop's Castle Poetry Pharmacy.
You will be welcomed and ushered upstairs to the treatment room. Settle on the chaise for a gentle consultation with one of our Poetry Pharmacists, and afterwards retire to the dispensary café with your prescribed poems for tea or coffee.
‘From the start I was overwhelmed by people’s responses. There is a magical combination of things when someone comes in: they put their feet up, sounds outside are hushed; it is a non-threatening intimate space.
I have been invited to do the work, or something tailor-made, in hospitals and in hospices, with vulnerable groups: people with sight loss, a loneliness charity, people with learning difficulties, survivors of domestic violence and others.’
Deborah Alma interviewed by Leslie Tate
You can see Deborah filmed by the BBC at work in 2014
Featured product
In-Person Poetry Consultation & Poetry Prescription Package
£75.00
Enjoy a one-to-one poetry consultation with one of our Poetry Pharmacists at the Poetry Pharmacy in Bishop’s Castle.
Your experience begins with tea or coffee and cake in our Dispensary Coffee Shop, before heading upstairs to our poetry library, where you can settle into the chaise lounge and enjoy your consultation in comfort.
Your Poetry Pharmacist will listen carefully and tailor your prescription to you, selecting a bottle of Poetry Pills, individual poems, Emotional State chocolate and a selection of Poetry Pharmacy keepsakes and merchandise to create a personalised poetry care package.
We’ll bring it all together for you to take home, along with your hand-picked poetry prescription.
A thoughtful and uplifting experience to enjoy for yourself, or to give as a gift to someone special.
Buying as a gift? Just let us know when you book and we’ll arrange the consultation directly with the recipient.
*In person consultations are only available in the Bishop's Castle Poetry Pharmacy.
Pickup currently not available
Featured product
Online Poetry Consultation & Poetry Prescription Package
£75.00
Enjoy a one-to-one online consultation with one of our Poetry Pharmacists, who will listen carefully and tailor your poetry prescription to you.
Following your consultation, your Poetry Pharmacist will create a personalised poetry care package, selecting a bottle of Poetry Pills, individual poems chosen especially for you, Emotional State chocolate and a selection of Poetry Pharmacy keepsakes and merchandise.
We’ll bring it all together into a beautifully packaged poetry prescription and send it to you in the post.
A thoughtful and uplifting experience to enjoy for yourself, or to give as a gift to someone special.
Buying as a gift? Just let us know when you book and we’ll arrange the consultation directly with the recipient.
Pickup currently not available
Featured product
Online Poetry Consultation
£45.00
Online Poetry on Prescription
Enjoy a one-to-one virtual consultation with one of our Poetry Pharmacists, who will listen to what you need and prescribe a hand-picked selection of poems especially for you.
Your poetry prescription will be sent to you by email after the consultation, ready to read, share and return to whenever you need it.
Buying as a gift? Just let us know when you book and we’ll arrange the consultation directly with the recipient.
Pickup currently not available
