Consultations
Alternative therapy for your emotional ailments via poetry prescription.
How it works
Choose your poetry prescription experience
Each experience begins with a one-to-one consultation with one of our Poetry Pharmacists. They’ll ask gentle questions and use their poetic knowledge to create a prescription especially for you.
You can choose to visit us in person, meet us online and receive your prescription by post, or meet us online and receive your prescription by email.
All three experiences are designed to give you a little time, attention and poetry for whatever life is asking of you.
‘‘I think the combination of being carefully listened to; being taken to idealised places through the ‘consultation’, putting your feet up on the chaise longue and then having a hand-picked poem is always a winning combination. Everyone loves it; it has an effect both light and profound.’’ - Deborah Alma, Poetry Pharmacy Founder
‘‘From the start I was overwhelmed by people’s responses. There is a magical combination of things when someone comes in: they put their feet up, sounds outside are hushed; it is a non-threatening intimate space. I have been invited to do the work, or something tailor-made, in hospitals and in hospices, with vulnerable groups: people with sight loss, a loneliness charity, people with learning difficulties, survivors of domestic violence and others.’’ - Deborah Alma interviewed by Leslie Tate
You can see Deborah filmed by the BBC at work in 2014
Featured product
In-Person Poetry Consultation & Poetry Prescription Package
£75.00
Enjoy a one-to-one poetry consultation with one of our Poetry Pharmacists at the Poetry Pharmacy in Bishop’s Castle.
You’ll be welcomed and ushered upstairs to our treatment room, where you can settle onto the chaise longue to enjoy a consultation in comfort.
Your Poetry Pharmacist will ask several gentle questions and listen carefully, giving you time and space to explore how poetry can benefit you. They’ll then put together your prescription, selecting a bottle of Poetry Pills, several poems, and other Poetry Pharmacy treats and keepsakes to create a personalised care package to take home.
This option also includes a flask of tea or coffee and cake from our dispensary café.
This is an uplifting experience to enjoy yourself, or makes a wonderful gift for someone special.
Buying as a gift? Just let us know when you book and we’ll arrange the consultation directly with the recipient.
*In person consultations are only available in the Bishop's Castle Poetry Pharmacy.
Pickup currently not available
Featured product
Online Poetry Consultation & Poetry Prescription Package
£75.00
Enjoy a one-to-one online consultation with one of our Poetry Pharmacists and receive a Poetry Prescription by post
Your Poetry Pharmacist will ask gentle questions and listen carefully, giving you time and space to explore how poetry can benefit you. They’ll then put together your prescription, selecting a bottle of Poetry Pills, several poems, and other Poetry Pharmacy treats and keepsakes and send it to you in the post.
A thoughtful and uplifting experience to enjoy for yourself, or to give as a gift to someone special.
Buying as a gift? Just let us know when you book and we’ll arrange the consultation directly with the recipient.
Pickup currently not available
Featured product
Online Poetry Consultation
£45.00
Enjoy a one-to-one online consultation with one of our Poetry Pharmacists
Your Poetry Pharmacist will ask gentle questions and listen carefully, giving you time and space to explore how poetry can benefit you. They will prescribe a hand-picked selection of poems especially for you.
Your poetry prescription will be sent to you by email after the consultation, ready to read, share and return to whenever you need it.
Buying as a gift? Just let us know when you book and we’ll arrange the consultation directly with the recipient.
Pickup currently not available
