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Poetry Prescription: Words for Love
Poetry Prescription: Words for Love | Deborah Alma
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This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated prescriptions in verse compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - these poems look at all the many manifestations of love. For All Matters of the Heart -Stimulants for Romantic Love, Panaceas for the Broken-Hearted; for the Appreciation of Fellowship, Family and for the Promotion of Tenderness. Includes poems by W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, Edna St Vincent Millay, D. H. Lawrence and many more. • No bitter pills • No adverse reactions The Poetry Prescription series compiled by Deborah Alma is the perfect antidote for life’s ailments. Inspired by the achingly cool Poetry Pharmacy shops in London and Shropshire - social media favourites with a clear focus on promoting wellbeing through the written and spoken word. Each of the eight themed titles offers an array of poems to inspire, heal and comfort. Whether you are looking to find solace for times of ill-health, loss and grief, cope with matters of the heart, need poetic inspiration for courage and confidence, or want to find peace and tranquillity in wild spaces, there is a collection for everyone. Perfect for reading aloud or for quiet contemplation, these books are a much needed balm for our busy lives.
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That was quick! It's a pretty skinny little volume. It's funny: some of the choices are just obvious, classic, and then there are some by poets I don't know at all. I'd hoped for more of the latter, but sometimes it's nice to be reminded of the classics (and I didn't know them all, even when they were standards).

I wouldn't have picked that particular Carol Ann Duffy poem out of all the options, though, no way.

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Got myself a lil haul of new books after discovering I had waaay oversaved for my taxes. 🎉

Titles:
Poetry Prescriptions: Words for Love (ed. Deborah Alma)
The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker: The story of Britain through its census (Roger Hutchinson)
The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish vol 1 (Xue Shan Fei Hu)
Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches (Matthew Champion)

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shanaqui The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading (Sam Leith)
The Medieval Scriptorium (Sara J. Charles)
Church Going: A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of the British Isles (Andrew Ziminski)
18-Century Fashion in Detail (Susan North)
Chinese Dress in Detail (Sau Fong Chan)
Underwear Fashion in Detail (Eleri Lynn)

Technically The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish doesn't go with this haul -- it was a random gift from my wife. 💙
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