Josephine Hart, author of the bestselling novel Damage, had what she called ‘a long love affair’ with poetry. It was an affair that started as a child and lasted until her untimely death at the age of sixty-nine in 2011. She said ‘I was a word child’ growing up in Ireland ‘a country of word children where life was language before it was anything else’. As a teenager and later she found the poetry of Eliot, Larkin, Yeats and others a lifeline,’a route map through life’.
Life Saving leaves us an inspiring legacy. It takes us on a journey of the imagination to some of the greatest poems written in the English language and allows us to understand, intuitively and deeply, why poetry matters.
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