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.







My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes
River Lane
Selected Poetry
Somewhere Else Entirely
The Range of Your Amazing Nothing
The Tamarit Poems
Comic Poems
Spiritlands
Bridge 116
Let Us Compare Mythologies
The 'White City'
Five Poems About Teachers
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Strong in the Rain
Short Days, Long Shadows
Being Alive