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Welcome to the world's first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy
"Here, instead of sleeping pills and multivitamins, customers will be offered prescriptions of Derek Walcott and Elizabeth Bishop"
- Alison Flood, The Guardian.
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A Gift Box that thinks deeply
Winter remedies
Christmas Collection
Thoughtful gifts for the people you love, with prescriptions for comfort, joy and Christmas Spirit.
A little poetry for whatever the season brings, including the occasional bout of Humbug.
Browse our Poison Collection
Shakespearean Curses
Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass in it.
Troilus and Cressida
A Selection of Insults & Barbed Wit from the Bard
• Very bitter pills
• Guaranteed adverse reactions
• Not to be swallowed (except metaphorically)
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Glimmers Pills
The old wooden birdhouse presents its perennial bouquet of baby Wrens – hungry suns blooming beak-first,
feathers falling into orbit, bodies remembering
how to unfurl themselves into this world. Jenna Whittaker
A glimmer is one of those small, easily missed moments that brings a flicker of pleasure, comfort, connection or hope.
For this special collaboration with The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, poets were invited to capture a glimmer in a brand-new, previously unpublished poem of no more than four lines and 250 characters, small enough to fit inside a Poetry Pharmacy capsule.
Possible side effects: increased noticing.
• No bitter pills
• No adverse reactions
• Not to be swallowed (except metaphorically)
