The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul

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The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul

The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul

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Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and that precious realisation – I’m not the only one who feels like this. Quite easily the best birthday present I ever got, gifted to me by a close friend a few years ago. I consult it from time to time and find a lot of comfort in it. It is amazing what some kind and true words can do for your mind. Some things aren't fixable (with reason) but new perspectives and comforting words of understanding and meaning go a long way. Having finished this collection, it was a great pleasure to listen to the touching testimony of William Sieghart about the project and the power of poetry, in which his love for the Persian poet Hafez shines through.

It’s a strange world we live in now, where almost nothing is like it is. Social media is full of avatars, people putting up a fake sense of self. They’re not saying, “I’m miserable”, “I’m lonely”, “I’m being betrayed” or “I’m sexually frustrated”– the last thing they’ll do is say how they might feel”. The shop opened on 3 October 2019, which – not uncoincidentally – is also National Poetry Day in the UK.“We’ve only been open for a few months. It’s like to having a new baby. You love it, but it completely dominates everything. So I love it, but I also think I’ve created a monster!” Bishop’s Castle is not known as a literary hub. How has the community responded?For writing inspiration, Jo Bell’s book Write A Poem A Week. Start Now. Keep Going. For more general creativity, Philippa Stanton’s Conscious Creativityis a pretty coffee-table book, but it’s not too airy-fairy! When you’re teaching writing, how do you help people get over their self-consciousness? The Poetry Habit is an online course held on zoom over five weekly sessions, led by artist and writer Sophie Howarth , and organised by the Poetry Pharmacy. Today is National Poetry Day here in the UK, and there could be no better primer for reluctant poetry readers than William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy. Consider it the verse equivalent of Berthoud and Elderkin’s The Novel Cure: an accessible and inspirational guide that suggests the right piece at the right time to help heal a particular emotional condition. With a report earlier this week showing that poetry sales were up by more than 12% in 2018, driven largely by younger buyers, Alma suggests poetry is filling the gap left by religion. That, I think, is the power in it. That sense of complicity you get for how you feel. You don’t necessarily have the language to express it yourself, but somebody else can express it much more elegantly than you can.

The AONB is a protected area that is recognised for its outstanding natural beauty. The Stiperstones are one of the most popular tourist destinations in the AONB, and for good reason! Kellaway, Kate (October 2017). "William Sieghart: 'I want people to drop their fear of poetry' ". The Guardian.Thank you very much Mwana for adding to the pleasure of this collection by pointing me to this wonderful Although I didn’t think of it that way at the time, that may well have been the first incarnation of the Poetry Pharmacy. The Pharmacy proper began much later, while I was being interviewed at a literary festival in Cornwall, England, about a more traditional anthology I’d just brought out. A friend of mine, Jenny Dyson, had the idea of allowing me to prescribe poems from that book to audience members after the talk. She set me up in a tent, with two armchairs and a prescription pad. It turned out to be all I needed. The hour we had originally planned for came and went, and then a second, and a third, until, many hours later, I was still in there, with queues of people still waiting for their appointments.

I make it fun and easy, usually, with exercises which are slightly silly. Each session we do something that’s frivolous, and I might give a prize or something. He was left standing with blood on his hands and a poem in his head – Philip Larkin’s ‘ Ambulances’,which talks about the moment when one sees an ambulance on the street: William Sieghart prescribes poetry to people for the mood or problem they are facing, this is a collection of some of his most commonly prescribed ones. What intrigues me about Philip James Bailey’s wonderful poem We Live in Deeds is its call to action. There’s something intensely motivating about the idea that we might fit a whole life’s worth of living into an hour, if only we had the courage. So often we are paralysed by our fears, concerns, worries and ‘what-ifs’, and we forget to dread the ‘what-if-I-don’ts’ instead.With its stunning countryside, historic castles, charming town centre, and world-class attractions, Oswestry has something to offer everyone. For example, Elizabeth Bishop's One Art is placed in Self-Image and Self-Acceptance. In this heart it mainly lives in Love and Loss, though it spends time in Mental and Emotional Well-Being as well as three others. Of the seventy-four conditions, the one for which he prescribes it is Letting Go. It makes sense but so do dozens of others. But it had to be done somehow, there are no prescriptions without conditions. So I learned to stop trying to rewrite what isn't mine: to Let Go. Because poetry. Sieghart chaired and authored An Independent Review of E-Lending in Public Libraries in England [8] published by Department Culture, Media and Sport, 2013 and was subsequently jointly commissioned by Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, DCMS, and Brandon Lewis, Minister for Communities & Local Government, DCLG, to consider and report on Public Library services in England. The "Independent Library report for England" [9] was published by DCMS in December 2014. In September 2015, Sieghart was appointed Chairman of Somerset House Trust.



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