About The Book: Poetry Pharmacy
As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Siegharts
poetic dispensaryWhen were grieving, when were broken-hearted, and when we find
ourselves struggling to understand the things were 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: Im 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