The Poetry Pharmacy

Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul

by William Sieghart

Particular Books, Penguin, 2017
First edition
ISBN 9781846149542
Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine
minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to corners and covers (see photographs)

“William Sieghart has had a long career in publishing and the arts.  He established the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 1992 and founded National Poetry Day in 1994.  He is a former chairman of the Arts Council Lottery Panel, and current chairman of Forward Thinking, a charity seeking peace in the Middle East; the Somerset House Trust; and Street Smart, Action for the Homeless.  His previous anthologies include Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life (2014), Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry (2015) and 100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five Years of the Forward Books (2016).  He was awarded CBE in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to public libraries.  His Poetry Pharmacy began in 2014; since then, he has prescribed almost a thousand poems up and down the UK, over hundreds of hours of in-person consultations.”