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.







New and Selected Poems. Volume One
Spiritlands
The Genre of Silence
Milk and Honey
Third World Girl: Selected Poems [with live readings DVD]
Strong in the Rain
Histories of Desire
Poems
Floss
Christmas Stocking
This Is Yarrow
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
A Colomber in the House of Poesy
Hansel and Gretel
Book of Mercy
States of Happiness
Centres of Cataclysm
Dog Poems
Luck Is the Hook
The Moon Before Morning
Five Poems About Teachers
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy