Emergency Poet

Name: Emergency Poet
Brand: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
SKU: 9781782434054
Price: 17.50 EUR
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★★★★★

4.07 (230 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Deborah Alma Stephen King

A brilliant new anthology of poems that will help you to overcome stress, depression and other anxieties.

Arranged by spiritual ailment, the sections include a range of verse, new and old, which may be of comfort to those in need of a pick-me-up for the soul.

The collection has been carefully compiled by Deborah Alma, the world's first and only emergency poet, who travels to schools, libraries, festivals and other events in her 1970s ambulance to offer consultations and prescribe poems as cures for various maladies.

This collection is designed to lift your mood and offers poetic help whenever it may be required.

Other poetry collections include The Everyday Poet: Poems to Live By.

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Product Details

Dimensions: 22 x 198mm
Publication Date: 01 Oct 2015
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: GB
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781782434054

About Deborah AlmaStephen King

Deborah Alma is a UK poet, editor and bookseller. She has worked using poetry with people with dementia, in hospice care, with women’s groups and with children in schools and taught at both Worcester and Keele universities. From 2012 she was the Emergency Poet, offering poetry on prescription from her vintage ambulance. She co-founded the world’s first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire with her partner the poet James Sheard in 2019, which now has a second branch inside Lush Spa on Oxford Street in London.
She is editor of #Me Too: rallying against sexual harassment, a women’s poetry anthology, Ten Poems of Happiness from Candlestick Press, and co-edited with Dr Katie Amiel These Are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS. She is also editor of The National Trust’s Nature Poems. Her first full collection of poems Dirty Laundry is published by Nine Arches Press. She is co-author with Mark Constantine of The Poetry Business School and is editor of the Poetry Pharmacy series with Macmillan, in 2025.