For the moments when you need to know that someone else has been there too. An anthology of diverse, fresh, vibrant voices organised by feeling from much-loved journalist Ella Risbridger.
'Broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily accompanied by Risbridger's commentary'
Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
Set Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry- a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead. With an intuitive, accessible, feelings-first format, these are poems for the moments when you really need to know that someone else has been there too.
These are poems about eating and kissing and having too many feelings, about being outside and inside and loving someone so much you think you might die. They are about break-ups and getting back together and oh-god-it's-complicated-don't-ask-me moments. They are about wanting and waiting and having, about grieving and life after death and the end of the world.
They are, in other words, about being alive.
For the moments when you need to know that someone else has been there too. An anthology of diverse, fresh, vibrant voices organised by feeling from much-loved journalist Ella Risbridger.
'Broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily accompanied by Risbridger's commentary'
Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
Set Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry- a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead. With an intuitive, accessible, feelings-first format, these are poems for the moments when you really need to know that someone else has been there too.
These are poems about eating and kissing and having too many feelings, about being outside and inside and loving someone so much you think you might die. They are about break-ups and getting back together and oh-god-it's-complicated-don't-ask-me moments. They are about wanting and waiting and having, about grieving and life after death and the end of the world.
They are, in other words, about being alive.
For the moments when you need to know that someone else has been there too. An anthology of diverse, fresh, vibrant voices organised by feeling from much-loved journalist Ella Risbridger.
Ella Risbridger is a writer and poet. She has written for the Guardian, Prospect, Grazia and Stylist, among others and wrote a column in The Pool called 'My Life in Poems'. Set Me On Fire is her first poetry anthology.
I credit Ella Risbridger with curing me of a deep and lasting
suspicion of poetry in general, and contemporary poetry in
particular. Readers of a similar disposition should be warned that
this collection – broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily
accompanied by Risbridger's commentary – will likely offer a
similar cure, while those already in love with the form have new
and startling pleasures in store.
*Sarah Perry, author of 'The Essex Serpent'*
A new anthology with fortifying intentions . . . offered as an
antidote to those who recoil from poetry. To my relief, it is only
loosely organised by feelings and brims with familiar and
unfamiliar voices: a lucky dip of the best sort.
*The Guardian*
I found her enthusiastic explanations and recommendations as fun
and refreshing as party-popped fizz. If I wanted to introduce young
people to poetry I'd give them this book, which reinforced my
conviction that helpful notes offer poetry as a generous gift
rather than leaving it on a chilly pedestal.
*Daily Mail*
A gorgeous anthology, cleverly curated to convert the cynics,
delight the poetically inclined and soothe everyone in between.
*Lauren Bravo, author of 'What Would the Spice Girls Do?'*
Whatever your mood – be it hunger, anger or an end of the world
kind of despair, Ella has a poem to soothe you. From the greats
like Philip Larkin and Sylvia Plath to obscure poets, new poets and
all shades of poets in between, to poems about peanut butter and
mix-tape, this anthology is as satisfying as a box of Quality
Street
*Red*
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