As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from 'Dr' Sieghart's poetic dispensary. When we're grieving, when we're broken-hearted, and when we find ourselves struggling to understand the things we're feeling, we long for the connection poetry can provide. To find the right poem at that crucial moment, one capable of expressing our situation with considerably more elegance than we could muster ourselves, is to discover a powerful sense of complicity, and that precious realization- I'm not the only one who feels like this. In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary- those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain.

Details

ISBN13: 9781846149542
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 320
Edition:
Publication Date: 2 Aug 2022
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Publication City, Country: Hawthorn,Australia
Dimensions (cm): 23.3(H) x 15.4(L) x 2.4(W)426
Weight (gm): 426

Author Biography

Robert Drewe is the author of eight novels, four books of short stories, two plays, two memoirs and four other works of non-fiction. His work has been widely translated, won national and international prizes and been adapted for film, television, theatre and radio.

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