The Power of Poetry, with Helena Bonham Carter and Jason Isaacs

Want to join the debate? Check out the Intelligence Squared website to hear about future live events and podcasts: __________________________ The Power of Poetry, with William Sieghart, Jeanette Winterson and Helena Bonham Carter For 15 years, the power of the spoken word has been at the heart of Intelligence Squared’s mission. Argument and debate, we believe, can move, persuade and create real change. Now, in these anxious and divided times, we held a special event that celebrated the positive, transformative force of another kind of spoken word – poetry. William Sieghart told the extraordinary story of his bestselling book, The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul. This is no conventional collection but one created from Sieghart’s own, personal experience of prescribing real poems to real people in need. Every poem is matched to a specific condition: fear of the unknown, unrequited love, stagnation, purposeless