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Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop evolved with Intel Evo Platform. Ladies and I hope that even if you don't recognize the face you do know the voice.

Now given that I'm normally breathing doom and gloom in your ear at some

on godly hour of the morning it is an absolute delight to be here. It is, and perhaps it speaks

to what this whole evening is about, which is finding an antidote to some of the stresses and strains of life or indeed some of the stuff you hear me saying early in the morning.

We've got a lot of poems that we'd all love to hear, so I'm going to crack on with first of all the obvious

introductions now Hannah mentioned William Seacart who in a way who is the

inspiration for this evening with his book the poetry pharmacy I mean he's a publisher established forward

prizes for poetry national poetry chairman of Somerset House Trust the

list goes on and given everybody on the stage I'm not going to do this really briefly

because you will frankly none of them need an introduction I suspect so

William obviously the inspiration for this and also Jeanette Winterson who as you will know the first novel

oranges are the only not the only fruit which propelled her to superstardom and the bestseller ranks which is where she's been

pretty much ever since and William and Jeanette are going to be talking to us about

some of the poems we're going to hear tonight and the context for them.

And then, boy do we have a cast list for reading our poems tonight.

I mean if you want to hear a poem read, who better than one of the four faces and voices

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