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Should poetry be on prescription?
Poetry can calm. It an console. It can connect us to others. So should we get it prescribed?
That was the idea behind William Sieghart's book The Poetry Pharmacy.
Here he is reading a poem if you are worried staying awake at night - The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Barry.
(Image: stack of books, credit: 麻豆社)
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