Anxious in a Sweet Store

Anna Jacobson mixes up the fiercely serious with the whimsical in her second book of poems, exploring a daily life of navigating small rituals and routines along with anxiety, a crippling companion.

Anxious in a Sweet Store is Anna Jacobson’s second illustrated poetry collection where the ’sweet’, whimsical, humorous, and quirky is juxtaposed with the ’anxious’ and disabling forces of mental illness. Themes of food, family, dreams, and culture crystallise, while the poet’s mind is fizz bang sherbet on the tongue. Anxious in a Sweet Store is an inventive collection of poems that build and enrich each other across threads of music and anxiety and beyond.