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Josephine Hart

Life Saving

Why We Need Poetry - Introductions to Great Poets

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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 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'.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 audienc… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84408-871-3
  • EAN: 9781844088713
  • Produktnummer: 17590148
  • Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 368 S.
  • Masse: H14.7 cm x B20.4 cm x D3.1 cm 524 g
  • Abbildungen: 16pp b/w photos
  • Gewicht: 524
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Josephine Hart (1942-2011) was the bestselling author of Damage, Sin, Oblivion,The Reconstructionist and The Truth About Love. She produced a number of West End plays. As well writing novels, she was a 'poetry evangelist' and her Josephine Hart Poetry Hour at the British Library inspired two edited poetry books: Catching Life By the Throat and Words that Burn. She was married to Maurice Saatchi and had two sons.

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