The Emergency Poet

A new poetry collection from Deborah Alma, to sooth, de-stress and provide a much-needed pick-me-up.[Deborah Alma] prescribes poems for all kinds of ills and this collection is a lovely read. * The Sun *Overcome the blues, stress and anxiety with this pick-me-up for the soul. * Woman’s Weekly *This thoughtful and moving anthology distils her warmth and wisdom into “verse cures” aimed at a variety of ills from insomnia and stress to sadness and the burdens of grief, allowing readers to dip into their favourites as and when the mood takes them. * Lancashire Evening Post *

Deborah Alma is a UK poet, editor and teacher. She has worked using poetry with people in hospice care with dementia, as well as with vulnerable women’s groups and children in schools, and she has lectured 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 bookshop in Shropshire with her partner the poet James Sheard in 2019.

She is the editor of The Emergency Poet: An Anti-stress Poetry Anthology, The Everyday Poet, #Me Too: Rallying Against Sexual Harassment: A Women’s Poetry Anthology, Ten Poems of Happiness, and co-edited with Dr Katie Amiel These Are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS. She is the editor of National Trust: Nature Poems, Poetry Projects to Make and Do, Dirty Laundry, and the Poetry Prescription series. She is co-author of The Poetry Business School with Mark Constantine & Kate Downey-Evans.