The poetry pharmacy : tried-and-true prescriptions for the heart, mind and soul / William Sieghart.

Date:
2017
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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." -- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

[London] : Particular Books, 2017.

Physical description

xxi, 151 pages ; 21 cm

Notes

Includes indexes.

Contents

Mental and emotional wellbeing -- Motivations -- Self-image and self-acceptance -- The world and other people -- Love and loss.

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PQE.AI
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1846149541
  • 9781846149542