Shelf Healing

In this Shelf Healing interview we chat to Deborah Alma, poet and founder of The Poetry Pharmacy. We discuss bibliotherapy, poetry, prescribing poems, and wellbeing, and what literature Deborah reaches for to improve mental health. This week I am joined by a guest co-host, Sara Cheraghlou.

Show Notes

In this Shelf Healing interview we chat to Deborah Alma, poet and founder of The Poetry Pharmacy. We discuss bibliotherapy, poetry, prescribing poems, and wellbeing, and what literature Deborah reaches for to improve mental health. This week I am joined by a guest co-host, Sara Cheraghlou.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/shelf-healing/2021/01/12/deborah-alma/

Date of episode recording: 2021-01-12
Duration: 25:50
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Rebecca Markwick and Sara Cheraghlou
Guests: Deborah Alma
Producer: Rebecca Markwick (also Editor); Dr Samantha Rayner

What is Shelf Healing?

Shelf Healing is UCL's bibliotherapy and wellbeing podcast. Interviews with authors, editors, academics, and more discussing the therapeutic effect of books and reading as well as Work & Life discussions focusing on workplace wellbeing and wellbeing issues encountered in daily life. Find us on Twitter @Shelf_Healing.