Life Saving: Why We Need Poetry

Life Saving: Why We Need Poetry

Josephine Hart

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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