Poetry Poison: Humbug

Author: Deborah Alma

Christmas

Published on 15 October 2026 by PAN MACMILLAN (Macmillan) in the United Kingdom

Hardback | 80 pages
188 x 122 | 136g

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated poetic poisons compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. The Poetry Poisons are for when sweetness fails, offering a controlled dose of the less virtuous emotions, to be taken slowly and without apology.

For the Detection of Nonsense; For a Healthy Disregard of Fashionable Thinking; For the Pricking of Pomposity; to Counteract Sentimentality; for the Exercise of Wit and Scepticism; An Antidote to Christmas Spirit