“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them,” Dennis Gabor once said. It’s a brilliant mental health tool because reading and writing poetry can enhance people’s lives in many unexpectedly beautiful ways.
The poet Deborah Alma probably knows this better than anyone else. After many years of prescribing poems as cures from the 1970s ambulance at festivals, conferences, hospitals and care settings, libraries and schools, the woman has opened the world’s first Poetry Pharmacy in the UK.
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