[Ideas Festival] William Sieghart: Poetry Pharmacy - Prescriptions for Hope

  • 03/12/2023
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Full Circle House, 89 Ch. de Vleurgat, 1050 Ixelles
  • 51

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POETRY PHARMACY
Prescriptions for Hope

A salon with William Sieghart

 Ideas Festival  / Sun 3rd Dec / 3-4.30pm

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.

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.
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ABOUT

William Sieghart is a British entrepreneur, publisher and philanthropist and the founder of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. He is former chairman of the Somerset House Trust.


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