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.







Selected Poetry
Reference Points
Comic Poems
101 Poems About Childhood
The Handle of the Door
Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth
Milk and Honey
Isn't Forever
Bedouin Of The London Evening: Collected Poems
Counting Backwards
Over the Moon
Being Alive
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
River Lane
Poetry Of Pop
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Book of Mercy
The Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems
The Tamarit Poems
States of Happiness
Bridge 116
Bloodlines
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
The Everywhere Bear: Book and CD Pack
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
This Is Yarrow
Rumi's Little Book Of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
The Princess and the Wizard: Book and CD Pack
Gold from the Stone
Classical Women Poets