Life Saving

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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 & 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 & later she found the poetry of Eliot Larkin Yeats & others a lifeline a route map through life. In the late 1980s Hart by now a successful West End theatre producer began a hugely popular event in which actors read the words of the great poets to an enraptured audience. In 2004 The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour moved to the British Library where it remains today. By her own admission Josephine Hart gave dead poets society. But she also gave them intelligent & exciting introductions; all of which are now collected here in this volume. They are insightful even great works in their own right. 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 & allows us to understand intuitively & deeply why poetry matters.