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The Emergency Poet

An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology

Author: Deborah Alma  

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.

A brilliant new anthology of poems designed to lift your mood and help you to overcome stress, depression and general anxiety. 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.

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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.

A brilliant new anthology of poems designed to lift your mood and help you to overcome stress, depression and general anxiety. 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.

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Description

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. The Emergency Poet is a collection designed to lift you mood and offer poetic help whenever it may be required. 

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Critic Reviews

“Overcome stress, feeling low and other anxieties with The Emergency Poet”

Top Sante Magazine
She prescribes poems for all kinds of ills and this collection is a lovely read. The Sun
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 favorites as and when the mood takes them. Lancashire Evening Post
Overcome the blues, stress and anxiety with this pick-me-up for the soul. Woman's Weekly Magazine

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About the Author

Deborah Alma is the Emergency Poet... the world's first and only mobile poetic first aid service. A mix of the serious, the therapeutic and the theatrical, the Emergency Poet offers consultations inside her ambulance and prescribes poems as cures. Dressed in white coat and stethoscope, she travels in her 1970s ambulance, accompanied by Nurse Verse or The Poemedic to literary and music festivals, libraries, schools, pubs, weddings and conferences ... anywhere that poetic help may be urgently required ...

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Product Details

Publisher
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Published
1st October 2015
Pages
192
ISBN
9781782434054

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