Poetry Poison: Revenge

Poetry Poison: Revenge

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains a carefully curated collection of poems compiled by Deborah Alma, founder of the Poetry Pharmacy, exploring revenge in all its bitter, furious and sometimes deliciously satisfying forms.

For the Satisfaction of Deep Hurt;
for Wrongs, Real or Imagined; for the
Nursing of Grievances; for Fantasies
of Redress and Reckoning; to Stoke
the Fires of Righteous Fury

Revenge rarely arrives alone. It comes tangled up with love, pride, humiliation and jealousy, with old injuries replayed and rearranged in the mind, and the persistent feeling that a wrong should somehow be answered.

Poetry Poison opens the locked cabinet of the Poetry Pharmacy. These are not gentle tonics or remedies for life’s ailments, but poems for exploring its darker registers. The series ventures into the feelings and impulses we might usually prefer to keep safely stoppered. 

In Revenge, anger is allowed to speak. These poems move from the first private stirrings of grievance into curses, betrayal and transformation, through fantasies of spectacular retribution and finally to revenge at its coolest and most precise, where it surfaces as wit, satire and the exquisite satisfaction of a well-aimed line.

Poetry Pharmacists recommend taking in measured doses. If bitterness sharpens, follow with something more restorative.