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.







The Occasional Parish Butterfly No. 2
Everyman Book Of Nonsense Verse
Somewhere Else Entirely
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one
Comic Poems
The Genre of Silence
What Rhymes with Sneeze?
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Isn't Forever
Jinx
States of Happiness
The Tamarit Poems
Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems
Strong in the Rain
Under Clouded Skies & Beauregard: Pens?es sous les nuages & Beauregard (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 5)
Macavity's Not There!: A Lift-the-Flap Book (Old Possum's Cats)
Poems Of The Sea (Everyman Pocket Poets)