I must admit that I have had this book for quite some time now as it is more something that you delve into rather than read from cover to cover. William Seighart gives us here then a wonderful collection of poems, for all sorts of problems and worries in our lives.
Set out into sections such as Mental and Emotional Wellbeing, Motivations, Self-Image and Self-Acceptance, The World and Other People, and Love and Loss, so each section has poems for the different elements that make up these main groupings. Of course, with something like this you will know some of these poems, after all we all know Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If…’, but there are many others that you will be unlikely to know.
There is a piece about how the poetry pharmacy came about as well as a piece on how to read poetry, which should help those new to this wonderful world. I always tell people when reading poems to let the vision created by the lyrics and the feelings it evokes be what they should take away from it, and of course as Seighart mentions, the same poem read at different times can evoke something slightly different, depending on how you are feeling in yourself at the time.
If you are looking for something that will help you make sense of what you are suffering, then hopefully you should find it within these pages, and thus find some consolation or inspiration. At times there can be a sort of prejudice around reading poetry, but ignore this, those who try to cast aspersions are quite often people who may be able to read the words on a page but will never really understand them. One other thing I should mention is that although there are complete poems here, some pieces are only extracts.
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