{"title":"Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"me-too-anthology","title":"#Me Too Anthology","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA collection of largely new work, that rose up directly out of the collective rage from the #MeToo campaign on social media around the world at the end of 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese poems are painful, angry, often difficult to bear, but the result of these voices singing together is one that is beautiful, full of sisterhood, strength, and recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnough tears. Enough silence. It was all of us but we \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enever knew. 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Dirty Laundry is a boldly poetic treatise that examines with a stern, clear eye the ravages of male repression and violence but refuses to break faith with the human capacity for healing, growth and love. Electric with metaphor, glorying in friendship, everyday joys and the sensual delights of sex and the natural world, this collection will ambush you with sudden and surprising epiphanies gleaned from a life well lived: immersive, thrilling and redemptive.” – Jacqueline Saphra \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA first collection by our own Poetry Pharmacist Deborah Alma. Let us know if you'd like a signed copy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jellybooks.com\/cloud_reader\/excerpts\/dirty-laundry_9781911027485-ex\/5xNly?utm_medium=cassis-share\u0026amp;utm_source=copy\u0026amp;n=uVAgP86Q23L\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eExtract from Dirty Laundry\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poetry Pharmacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44540885827867,"sku":"B-009","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9436\/9563\/files\/Dirty_Laundry.jpg?v=1751460035"},{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-birds","title":"Ten Poems About Birds","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere is probably more poetry about birds than about any other insect or animal, as if there’s something in the nature of a bird that makes it particularly suited to the small and intense space that is a poem. This delightful anthology is a second edition of one of our most popular titles and includes some beautiful new poems. It opens up a captivating world that exists in parallel to our own and will be relished by birders and poetry lovers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe ten selections are little miracles in themselves, capturing the quirks of habit or appearance that distinguish one species from another. Never anthropomorphic, they imagine what the vivid life of a bird must be, or tease out what it is that thrills or moves us when we’re surprised by a bird as we hurry about our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor Kathleen Jamie the wheeling flight of swallows captures a life lived in brightness and freedom, while for Katrina Porteous a skylark is:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“…all the music the heart needs,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFull of its sudden fall, silent fields.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efrom ‘Skylark’ by Katrina Porteous\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poetry Pharmacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44541235364123,"sku":"BCP-020","price":6.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9436\/9563\/files\/ten-poems-about-birds-poetry-pamphlet-pack-shot.jpg?v=1750339504"},{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-clouds","title":"Ten Poems About Clouds","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWho hasn’t looked up at the sky and seen a whale or a poodle or a sports car? There’s something about clouds that excites the imagination. Their shape-shifting nature means they never fail to entertain and intrigue us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere in our little archipelago we certainly get our fair share. Whether it’s the dumpy, fair-weather cumulus of a hot day in high summer or the spirit-dampening stratus of a wet November weekend, it’s hard to imagine our skies without them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese poems explore the many different ways in which we experience clouds – whether simply as weather or as a more abstract representation of a state of mind or a mood. As Billy Collins says, quoting perhaps our greatest painter of clouds John Constable:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The emotion is to be found in the clouds…”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efrom ‘Student of Clouds’ by Billy Collins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt’s impossible to pin down a cloud and this rich and varied selection reflects that beguiling elusiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poetry Pharmacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44541237231899,"sku":"BCP-019","price":6.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9436\/9563\/files\/ten-poems-about-clouds-poetry-pamphlet-pack-shot.jpg?v=1750339606"},{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-flowers","title":"Ten Poems About Flowers","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA bouquet is a welcome and beautiful thing, but the beauty is inevitably short-lived. This delightful mini-anthology, however, is guaranteed never to wither. Roses, fritillaries, daisies, gentians and the humble ragwort are celebrated here by poets ranging from Mimi Khalvati to William Wordsworth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe experience their colours and scents in vivid language, so each lives on the page with all the intensity of a real flower. 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This insightful selection of ten funny, poignant and refreshingly honest poems deals with the reality of friendship in all its forms. From childhood alliances at school through the angst of teenage years into companionship and the redemption of old age, Lorraine Mariner shows that friendship poems come in as many different shapes and sizes as our friends themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Half my friends are dead.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI will make you new ones, said earth.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo, give them back, as they were, instead,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewith faults and all, I cried.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efrom ‘Sea Canes’ by Derek Walcott\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poetry Pharmacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44541241983259,"sku":"BCP-017","price":6.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9436\/9563\/files\/ten-poems-about-friendship-poetry-pamphlet-pack-shot.jpg?v=1750339740"},{"product_id":"ten-poems-of-home","title":"Ten Poems about Home","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Candlestick Press –\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis beautiful selection of poems captures the many ways in which we experience that unique sense of being at home. 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In one of the most celebrated of modern love poems, we sense the boundless optimism of love at full tilt:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“…you are whatever a moon has always meant\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand whatever a sun will always sing is you”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efrom ‘i carry your heart with me’ by ee cummings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlong the way there’s also humour and warmth in the form of a battered straw hat that has come to symbolise what it means to be together for the long haul. 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