William Sieghart
William has spent most of his adult life promoting poetry. He founded the Forward Prizes for Poetry, the UK’s biggest poetry prizes, in 1991, and soon after, National Poetry Day, which is celebrated in the UK every October. William has been dispensing poetry prescriptions since his Poetry Pharmacy began in 2014, and his three-part Poetry Pharmacy book series prescribes diverse poetry from across the ages as a salve for our daily mental and emotional travails.
