The Emergency Poet

<p><b>We all have moments in which life can feel overwhelming. This book presents a selection of poems that is designed to lift your mood.</b><br><br>Life has a habit of tripping us up at times, usually when we least expect (or can cope) with it. In <i>The Emergency Poet</i>, Deborah Alma (the Emergency Poet herself) presents a <b>thoughtful and highly therapeutic</b> selection of poems, designed to lift your mood, helping you relax and take stock.<br><br>Organized into sections that follow a life through its challenges and hard times – from learning to be yourself, falling in and out of love and having children, through to ill-health, dying and coping with grief, as well as poems that <b>serve as a tonic to lift the spirits</b> – the anthology contains poems old and new, from world-renowned and lesser-known poets. What matters is that their words speak intimately, as though from one person to another, with grace and wisdom. They are soothing and carefully <b>chosen to purge melancholy, provide hope and give courage</b> in the most trying circumstances.<br><br>The perfect pick-me-ups for the soul.</p>