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. For the Detection of Nonsense; For a Healthy Disregard of Fashionable Thinking; For the Pricking of Pomposity; to Counteract Sentimentality; for the Exercise of Wit and Scepticism; An Antidote to Christmas Spirit