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.







Milk and Honey
Spiritlands
I Don't Want This Poem to End: Final Poems and Prose
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Book of Mercy
The Genre of Silence
Bridge 116
Poems of the Dead and Undead (Everyman Pocket Poets)
Dog Poems
Over the Moon
Somewhere Else Entirely
The Hitting Game
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Undertones
Being Alive
Isn't Forever
A Quarter of an Hour
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
The Mystical Rose
Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles
Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
The 'White City'
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
The Tamarit Poems
101 Poems About Childhood
My Colourful Chameleon
Comic Poems
Counting Backwards
Reading Paul Muldoon
A Monkey At the Window
A Colomber in the House of Poesy
Selected Poetry
Love Is a Place
The Mighty Stream