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Deborah Alma - Poetry Poison: Humbug, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Poetry Poison: Humbug

Av Deborah Alma

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This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated poetic poisons compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. The Poetry Poisons are for when sweetness fails, offering a controlled dose of the less virtuous emotions, to be taken slowly and without apology.For the Detection of Nonsense; For a Healthy Disregard of Fashionable Thinking; For the Pricking of Pomposity; to Counteract Sentimentality; for the Exercise of Wit and Scepticism; An Antidote to Christmas Spirit . . .. . . With the tinsel ripped off.A wickedly funny poetry collection for anyone who has ever survived the season with a mince pie in one hand and a grudge in the other. Includes poems from Wendy Cope, Philip Larkin, Brian Bilston, Ogden Nash, John Hegley, Thomas Hardy, and Charles Causley.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-15
  • Mått: 122 x 188 x 12 mm
  • Vikt: 136 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 80
  • Förlag: Pan Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9781035087426
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Deborah Alma is a UK poet and editor. She has worked using poetry with people with dementia, in hospice care, with women’s groups and with children in schools. 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 and in June 2024 opened a second Poetry Pharmacy inside the Lush Spa on Oxford Street.She is editor of Emergency Poet-an anti-stress poetry anthology, #Me Too – rallying against sexual harassment- a women’s poetry anthology, Ten Poems of Happiness from Candlestick Press, The National Trust Book of Nature Poems and Poetry Projects to Make and Do, and co-edited with Dr Katie Amiel These Are the Hands-Poems from the Heart of the NHS. Her collection Dirty Laundry is published by Nine Arches Press.

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