The Poetry Pharmacy
Summary: Every couple of weeks I invite someone I like to read me a poem from a poet that they love, a poem they carry around in their Existential First Aid Kit. We then chat about the poem, and I also read them a poem from the Pharmacy. If my guest is a writer, we conclude with them reading a piece of their own work that excites and interests me.
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- Artist: Steve Wasserman
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In a recent self-google through the trillion images that float around us in the ether, I noticed that I have a doppelgänger and his name is Han Dong . Spot the difference: Now the logicians … Continue reading →
It seems kind of fitting that I first heard DW Wilson’s prize-winning[1] short story The Dead Roads about this time last September, midway through a ten-mile hike through the Chilterns. Even more fitting would have been to listen or read it … Continue reading →
Gemma Seltzer is cool. I am probably not the first person to arrive at this estimation of her, and I shall no doubt be one of a very orderly queue lining up to say so now and in the future. … Continue reading →
“Although this is specifically a poem that speaks about poetry and the powers of poetry, it also speaks to me about the powers of the imagination. And that’s something I prize in life enormously. What books bring to me is … Continue reading →
“Death is something that has come to bite me quite a lot. As so often happens, people turn to poetry in times of grief and need, and therefore my connection to poetry has often been dealing with both loneliness and … Continue reading →
“I dislike travel writing about temples, or churches, or mosques, or architecture in general, or, for that matter, trees, or trains, or roads, and especially the Khyber Pass; in fact I think I only like travel writing when it’s not about travel at all … Continue reading →
“Because our friendship has been so important to our progress as writers (as well as human beings), we wanted to find out about friendships between other female authors we loved. We all know quite a lot about male writer friends: … Continue reading →
“The problem the whole book presents is that it’s trying to give you a strategy for getting what you want: out of people, out of things, out of a seat, an outfit, a drink. I hope, personally, my own agenda … Continue reading →
“The poetry I’m interested in most of the time is open-ended: inviting the reader to participate in the process of questioning, meaning, and everything really.” Marcus Slease Marcus Slease was born in Portadown, N. Ireland. He has lived all over … Continue reading →
“We’re all bozos on this bus. We’re all lost, we’re all confused, we’re all presenting a civilized veneer. But in our own hearts, we’re all kind of madmen in various ways. ” David Shields David Shields is the author of fourteen … Continue reading →
“The wonderful thing about poems is that no matter how many times you’ve read them before, they still feel new if you’re reading them in a live way.” Jane Davis Jane Davis is changing the way people relate to literature, … Continue reading →
“There’s so much naughtiness and pleasure in overturning the ridiculousness of taking ourselves so seriously.” Vera Chok … Continue reading →
“I’m always very pleased when I start going out with somebody and I find they have a habit that annoys me, yet I I still like them. That’s a minor triumph for me, that’s romantic.” Charles Adrian Gillot … Continue reading →
“There’s all this action going on, this rumpusing, but the bit that sticks in the head, well for me at least, is the him-and-his-Mum aspect of it. And the food still being hot.” Colin Heinink Colin Heinink is a primary school … Continue reading →
I’ve felt like I’ve needed to learn poetry this year. By heart. You might have had this feeling too? You may have thought, or perhaps even said these words aloud to someone sitting across the way from you on the … Continue reading →
