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.







A Quarter of an Hour
Spiritlands
Let Us Compare Mythologies
The World Record
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy
Being Human
Being Alive
Pretend You Don't Know Me
Ten Poems by The Romantics
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
There Are Girls Like Lions
Luck Is the Hook
Love Poems
Strong in the Rain
Isn't Forever
Somewhere Else Entirely
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
The Mighty Stream