The Poetry Pharmacy Returns with William Sieghart and Sarah Dunant

Intelligence Squared

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🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul was one of the publishing sensations of the past few years. Anyone who came to the event Intelligence Squared built around it – when Jeanette Winterson, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Sue Perkins and Tom Burke joined Sieghart in celebrating the power of poetry – will remember what a magical evening it was. Now, after huge demand, Sieghart is back with a second volume – The Poetry Pharmacy Returns – and once again Intelligence Squared brought it to all to life on stage. Whether your spiritual ailment is loneliness, heartache or anxiety, Sieghart has a poem to meet your needs. He was joined in conversation by acclaimed novelist and broadcaster Sarah Dunant. With their signature warmth and wit, they discussed poems from the new book, each one matched to a particular problem, whether it’s unrequited love, fear of the unknown or feeling daunted by the challenges of family life. And we had a stellar cast of actors to perform the poems: Dominic West, Nina Sosanya, Greta Scacchi and Martha West. The event was chaired by author, playwright and broadcaster Bonnie Greer. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	Good evening everybody and welcome. Thank you all so much for coming my name's
1:05.9	Hannah Kay and I'm the executive producer at Intelligence Squared first of all a very
1:11.1	big thank you to our stellar cast of speakers and actors for coming tonight.
1:16.0	Martha West has got stuck in a seminar at Oxford and she's still on the circle line,
1:21.0	but she will be joining us very soon. Now I imagine that some
1:25.4	of you were here 18 months ago when we did our first event on William Seackehart's
1:30.8	original book, The Poetry Pharmacy.
1:33.2	It was a wonderful book, it is a wonderful book,
1:34.9	and a great event.
1:36.2	And so I was absolutely over the moon
1:38.6	when I heard that there was going to be a follow-up,
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