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.







River Lane
The Lover's Pinch
The 'White City'
Signs Like This
A Colomber in the House of Poesy
Poems
Isn't Forever
Over the Moon
The Moon Before Morning
Bridge 116
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
The Sea Migrations
Pretend You Don't Know Me
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Ten Poems for Summer