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Set Me On Fire
  • Published: 15 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780857526267
  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $40.00

Set Me On Fire

A Poem For Every Feeling

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5 Dec 2019
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15 Oct 2019
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For the moments when you need to know that someone else has been there too. An anthology of diverse, fresh, vibrant voices organised by feeling from much-loved journalist Ella Risbridger.


'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.
  • Published: 15 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780857526267
  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

Ella Risbridger

Ella Risbridger is a writer and poet. She has written for the Guardian, Prospect, Grazia and Stylist, among others and wrote a column in The Pool called ‘My Life in Poems’. Set Me On Fire is her first poetry anthology.

portrait photo of Ella Risbridger

Praise for Set Me On Fire

A new anthology with fortifying intentions . . . offered as an antidote to those who recoil from poetry. To my relief, it is only loosely organised by feelings and brims with familiar and unfamiliar voices: a lucky dip of the best sort.

The Guardian