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.
Revenge
For the Satisfaction of Deep Hurt; For Wrongs, Real or Imagined; For the Nursing of Grievances; For Fantasies of Redress and Reckoning; to Stoke the Fires of Righteous Fury.
Best Served Cold. Poetry Poison: Revenge offers a potent and unapologetic dose of literary vengeance, featuring powerful verses of curses, ill-will, and retribution. Includes poems from Shakespeare, John Donne and Christina Rossetti.
Vices
A Distillation of the Finest Sins & Vices; For the Indulgence of Appetites; For Moments of Temptation and Relish; For the Celebration of Excess; to Encourage Delight in the Forbidden; for the Cultivation of Delicious Bad Habits. Poetry Poison: Vices offers an intoxicating collection exploring human flaws: lust, desire, gluttony, sloth and more. Includes poems from Shakespeare, William Blake, and Henry David Thoreau.
Darkness
Extract of Night; For Howling to the Moon; For the Contemplation of Shadows & the Love of the Unlit; For the lifting of the veil between the real and the imagined. Poetry Poison: Darkness offers a profound journey into the deep night, featuring evocative verses of shadow, solitude, and the unknown. Includes poems from Emily Dickinson, John Keats and Thomas Hardy.