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.







Fulke Greville: Poems
Negative of a Group Photograph
Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles
New and Selected Poems. Volume One
Luck Is the Hook
Dog Poems
Shuffle and Squelch: Book and CD Pack
Over the Moon
Immrama
Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
Let Us Compare Mythologies
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
Steep Tea
Music Lessons: Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures
Wild Persistence
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Poems & Fragments
New and Selected Poems (Book & DVD)
Somewhere Else Entirely
Selected Poetry
Being Alive
Milk and Honey
Love Is a Place
Just Like Brothers
Bridge 116
Jinx
Gold from the Stone
Imagine - John Lennon, Yoko Ono Lennon, Amnesty International illustrated by Jean Jullien
Isn't Forever
101 Poems About Childhood
Pretend You Don't Know Me
Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems
Five American Poets