Deborah Alma

Deborah Alma is a poet and editor who, with her partner, the poet James Sheard, co-founded the world's first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire in 2019. Offering poetry on prescription, it has since expanded to branches in London's Oxford Street and York. As an editor, her books include the Poetry Prescription series, Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology and These Are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS. She is also co-author of The Poetry Business School. Her poetry collection Dirty Laundry is published by Nine Arches Press.