Poetry Poison: Darkness

Poetry Poison: Darkness

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains a carefully curated collection of poems compiled by Deborah Alma, founder of the Poetry Pharmacy, exploring darkness in all its shifting forms.

Extract of Night; for Howling to the Moon; for the Contemplation of Shadows and the Love of the Unlit; for the Lifting of the Veil between the Real and the Imagined

Darkness is rarely just the absence of light. It can be menace and mystery, grief and dream, danger and desire. It can also be the place where the mind loosens its grip and a different kind of seeing becomes possible.

Poetry Poison opens the locked cabinet of the Poetry Pharmacy. These are not gentle tonics or remedies for life’s ailments, but poems for exploring its darker registers. The series ventures into the feelings and impulses we might usually prefer to keep safely stoppered.

In Darkness, the poems trace the gathering of night, the descent into grief and dream, the seductions of secrecy and transformation, and finally the uneasy solace of rest. The dark is not simply something to escape. It can be fertile, alive with possibility, and somewhere our eyes gradually learn new ways of seeing.