Are you lonely,nervous approximately Christmas or frustrated with relatives? William Sieghart of the much-loved Poetry Pharmacy will be in to prescribe you a poem for your problems on Friday 15 December at 1pm GMT. Post your requests in the comments below 1.09pm GMTOne day as he was crossing a street, National Poetry Day founder William Sieghart saw a man be hit by a car. After getting his heart beating again, or William was left with blood on his hands and a poem in his head: Ambulances by Philip Larkin. It did not consolation him,but it offered complicity, William says: “Poetry is not a lullaby. Poems help you feel you are not crazy, and that what you are going through has been experienced by others.”Motivated by his wish to “get people to drop their fear of the P-word”,William began setting up a tent at literary festivals with two armchairs and a prescription pad and allocated visitors 10-minute slots. Hours later, people would still be queuing to get their poem – and fill their stories and feelings heard. After collecting poems to help people with everything from feeling overwhelmed by news to sexual repression, and from loneliness to romantic boredom,William published The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-real Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul.
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Source: guardian.co.uk