Description
‘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.







Counting Backwards
Isn't Forever
Steep Tea
Selected Poetry
Ten Poems About Friendship
Murals
The Visitations
Between Mountain and Sea: Poems from Assynt
Comic Poems
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Dog Poems
The Tamarit Poems
States of Happiness
101 Poems About Childhood
Gold from the Stone
Let Us Compare Mythologies
New and Selected Poems. Volume One
Being Alive
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
This Is Yarrow
The Handle of the Door
Hansel and Gretel
Reading George Szirtes
The Book of Love & Loss