Hi Deb, I was stoked to find out about this.. what an amazing idea.. it’s just awesome what you’re doing. There will be dying, there will be dying. Maybe we should have a chat on the phone? Peter, Thanks so much Peter! Keep reading and very best wishes, Join Facebook to connect with Deborah Alma and others you may know. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-after-love/. It started with one line from Seamus Heaney, and that was not even from one of his poems. Receive a signed copy of 'The Every day Poet; Poems to Live By'. The pharmacy which opened to the public recently, has been a raging success among the locals. from the Bubonic plague. A bottle of ‘poem-cetamol’ - a personalised bottle for your particular ailment. For the waitress. Unfortunately majority of the rest of the staff were not on my same wavelength and put a stop to my therapy idea’s. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/variation-on-a-theme-by-rilke/ It speaks directly to the reader, depicting them as a traveller who by the final lines can be found “catching this/one truth by surprise/that there is everything to look forward to”. The Poetry Pharmacy draws on this power alongside the creative therapy of poetry when dispensing its prescriptions. and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We’ve had all sorts of coverage everywhere from France to India. Deborah Alma is on Facebook. I will be reading more! Poetry is weaving a pattern in my recovery that I don’t fully understand. ( Log Out /  Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. * It might have been damaged. I find that poetry helps to lower my stress levels and switch my thoughts from the consuming variety to calmer, more philosophical ones. At that point I was about to start my first proper full-time job in London and feeling anxious about how my life was about to change. “I think probably more than any other art it speaks directly as though from one person to another,” says Alma, who published her own first collection, Dirty Laundry, last year. To be great, be whole. His poem (To be great, be whole) also has a mistake (it’s instead of its). Become a Benign Benefactor of the Poetry Pharmacy and in exchange receive our deep gratitude. Dressed in a white coat and stethoscope, Alma says she was invited to appear as the Emergency Poet at “schools, hospitals and festivals all over the place, but I’m a middle-aged woman and I’m getting a bit old for driving around”. poetrypharmacy.co.uk I live in Oswestry but work in the Education department at HMP. Alma is reluctant to hand out general poetry prescriptions on demand, as she says each “patient” needs a proper consultation before being given a poem, but she will advise that for a broken heart, Derek Walcott’s Love After Love is “always a good one, about falling in love with your own interesting life”. It's a way to bring creative projects to life. The cure; and it is wise and true, is to fall in love with your own good life. Here, instead of sleeping pills and multivitamins, customers will be offered prescriptions of Derek Walcott and Elizabeth Bishop. It was a quote from a newspaper interview in 1972. to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder. Have your name and a cartoon portrait forever emblazoned on our wall and receive a VIP invite to our launch party. And sorry too that you didn’t come and have a prescription! Alongside regular poetry books, customers will find tiny printed poems which are rolled up, put inside capsules and kept in medicine jars with labels like “broken heart” and “hope”. There are skulls, jars of eyeballs and other body parts inside the ambulance and in the waiting room under an attached awning Nurse… ollowing in the hallowed footsteps of Milton. Berwyn. Very kind of you to say so! Emergency Poet was conceived by poet and writer Deborah Alma as a fun way of bringing poetry to people. Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to get in touch! Pay to hear the beautiful sound of your own voice, with a captive audience and you'd be very welcome as our guest for dinner and overnight too. http://westnorwoodfeast.com/.

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