The Power of Poetry, with Helena Bonham Carter and Jason Isaacs
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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, purposelessness, convalescence, oppression
Joining him in conversation were novelist and poetry devotee Jeanette Winterson. Together they explored poetry’s uncanny ability to calm, console and, above all, connect us to the minds and feelings of others. Finding the right poem at the right moment is not just a problem shared, Sieghart says, but a problem transformed. It is ‘to discover a powerful sense of complicity, and that precious realisation: I’m not the only one who feels like this.’ It is to forge a connection with ‘this stranger who understands - and what results is a sort of peace.’
Bringing the poems to dramatic life were a cast of star actors including Helena Bonham Carter, Sue Perkins, Jason Isaacs and Tom Burke.
Did you enjoy this talk on the power of poetry? Then check out our video about letters that changed the world - czcams.com/video/luMEjKFt5Qk/video.html
Letters include those from Michelangelo, Catherine the Great, Sarah Bernhardt, Rosa Parks, Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing and Leonard Cohen. Some are inspiring, some unsettling, others express foreboding and despair. Many celebrate love and sex.
A cast of performers, including Young Vic director Kwame Kwei-Armah, rising star Jade Anouka, Dunkirk actor Jack Lowden, and West End star Tamsin Greig, brought the letters to life on stage.
Beautiful. "Short" significant poems....the most awe filled joy filled show. 'A few colorful/less "leaves' of grass'': great for those who experience the resonance of grace when they pick up a pen....where letters are enlivened in the "cave of the heart".
Disyphering the mirrors that unveil the soul coming towards the present. To see the morning sun and feel the warmth of an entire nation.
Words
Trusts
Rippling water
Art
Part.
Of course, being a poet myself!
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I came for Helena , but ended up finding deep appreciation for everyone on the panel ..
The first one Helena read. Imagine Ballatrix talking about the Dark Lord. So much fun😻
Miss Merry Berry, same:)
same
Absolutely. They’re all brilliant
#MeToo
The poems:
10:19 - The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
12:39 - Celia Celia by Adrian Mitchell
14:53 - Your Task by Rumi
17:39 - It Happens All The Time in Heaven by Hafiz
26:00 - Atlas by U. A. Fanthorpe
28:03 - Voice by Ann Sansom
31:05 - The Price by Stewart Henson
34:47 - Two Cures For Love by Wendy Cope
41:27 - The Mistake by James Fenton
45:13 - Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert
48:05 - Love After Love by Derek Walcott
54:06 - All That is Gold Does Not Glitter by J. R. R. Tolkien
1:01:39 - Golden Retrievals by Mark Doty
1:04:26 - Bedecked by Victoria Redel
Thank you 🌺
thank you very very much
THANK U SO MUCH!
Thank you
Perfect! Thank you so much!
I'm here for Helena Bonham Carter
Same here hehehe
Same
Same here 😂😍
Same! ^_^
Same :'>
Many literature classes nearly murdered my love of words. They had us participate in the autopsy of great works. Eviscerating, cataloguing, breaking them down to pieces so small and disarticulated that the beauty of the whole was unrecognizable.
beautifully said
Hence when people hear the word _poetry_, they squirm and mumble under their breath
Me too, put me off reading and that is my passion! It took ages to get back to books after leaving school.
Yes, I had the same experience. It's too bad. I wonderful teacher is one of the world's greatest gifts!
@Lily Anderson Oh please its ' literature' not 'litriture' did you not receive the red wavy line of Professor Spell Check on your device?
This video is two years old, and CZcams finally recommended it to me. Awesome to see Bellatrix Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy reading Muggle literature.
C mamo JAJSJJWHWHW
I once was driven home in a car with open top by an English boyfriend. Suddenly he said a bit of poem to me. I have forgotten what it was but it was amazing what an effect it had on me, just because it was in rhyme.
Nicu B- That’s what I thought!
Best comment
Helena Bonham Carter almost sings when she recites the poem. It's speech that is on the verge of singing
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”
Alan Bennett, The History Boys
well said
Bellatrix and Lucius sitting and smiling..... WHY AREN'T PEOPLE RUNNING??
😂😂😂
I'm asking the same! =D
I'd call the Order, at least.
Maybe they're slytherins and pure bloods
@@vitomcsween974 even those should be fear, i think 😂
Because they are Bellatrix and Lucius 😍😍😍😍😍
I love what Jeanette Winterson says about things outside of you will get destroyed easily, but the things inside stays.
Yes. I once heard that a possession is something you have that cannot be taken away... that's not much, is it? Our love, our hate? Our joy, our pain? Our knowledge, our memories. . . it's all inside.
So true!
Do follow me for some poetry :)! @agratagupta
Reminds me of the song Marceline sings in Adventure time called “Everything Stays” and it’s one of my absolute favorite songs!
I wonder
I wish Alan Rickman could have been apart of this line up reciting poetry 💔😭
A magic poem
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😭😭
oh how I wish to see him act out my fave characters again.
Oh, I miss that man so much! 🥺💔🥺
Helena knows how to read.....she's literally got me engrossed into listening....
Jason Isaacs is so underrated.
"Phenomenal woman,that's me"
Omg,these words suit Helena so much!
I love when she reads btw
What poem was that?
So glad CZcams suggested this. I've been so starved for this kind of conversation. A poem recommendation "Listen.." by Ogden Nash.
Wow! Stonking recommendation. Thank you for sharing the love.
Me too!!!!!!!!!!!
Same.
inxby inxby Listen...
' There is a knocking in the skull,
An endless silent shout
Of something beating on a wall,
And crying , "Let me out!"
and this continues for
another five stanzas.
Very tasty, deliciously
dark.
"His lonliest is when he pretends that he is not alone" ...jesus, that hit me hard
this is one of the most fascinating talks I've ever seen. In this time where everyone overtalks eachother and there's a lack of a real conversation hearing all this incredibly smart and sensible.people is like a breath of fresh air. Really amazing 🌟
I agree. ✨
well said! i just send it to a friend...this event is so uplifting in many ways...even if I only understood let´s say about 94%...I will again listen to it. The way they listen and speek with so much awareness is awesome...very inspiring to practice this kind of spoken art again moer often...
Intelligence Squared does a good job of creating a culture where everyone has designated time to talk, so it gives people space to relax a bit and elaborate.
I just love how Helena always transpires a mysterious aura around her. It's so fascinating. I'm really glad I clicked this video. Also 7 am here.
The moment u see Bellatrix and Lucius sitting next to each other
Tom Burke (who sits centre-stage in this video) is also the godson of Alan Rickman (Snape), Great Britain is a small island....
@@GemmaJohnshat and every single person on it seems to have been in Harry Potter
"I hope you recognize the voice". Yes, it sounds exactly like Emma Thompson's.
I was actually just listening (not watching bc i was doing some other things) and i thought it was Emma T.
Yes, I thot so too. But I'm an ignorant American and Emma's is the one I know best. How delightful that there is more than one wonderful voice!
No lah
@@johnmulligan455 she is one of the best journalist from radio 4 bbc. The greater, and charming Sarah Montague. Marc from France.
jamesjohngarner where is Emma T.?
I’m only 30 minutes into this video and this is probably, possibly one of my favourite videos on CZcams so far. Beautiful
Agreed. And the first one that had me taking notes and rewinding every few minutes just to enjoy the brilliance of their performances (William and Jeanette just as much as the others!) all over again. And again.
Same
so true...watched it multiple times now...seems to have been a wonderful event...the athmosphere is just so light and loving somehow...I sometimes just listen to it while ironing or so ;-)...also good language training...still words I have to learn...and it makes me want to understand every single world :-)
I agree! Just wish I'd been there in person.
"...carbon beings in a silicon world..." I am so happy to have found this channel.
which poem is this from? i might have missed it in the video ^^;
CZcams recommended this to me two days ago and it had 50k views, now it’s at 66k and I’m so happy they’ve finally got their priorities right
I am glad for this recommendation too😊
90k now
202k now❤
Recommended to me today, Feb 21, 2021.
As a Poet from 17, I love this, and what you are exposing others to. I am finally creating books about my journey. Poetry is a part of my doctorate treatise. I am now 70 years young.
Helena Bonham Carter made me speechless while reading reading that Phenomenal Woman..wow!!
That was phenomenal.... I never dared going near poems. Now I might venture into a new adventure
Do it, you won't regret it♡
I don’t know why every time I try to do something artistic I just get stuck. With poems too I just can’t find the words to express what I want
@@nfv9039 just read a lot, the more you read the more you become comfortable with words and using and manipulating language to mean what you want it to mean.
A poem is a secret the heart cannot keep ❤️ -robin wiencek
then it's not a secret
Can you keep a secret
Can you keep it well,
Can you keep a secret
And never, never tell?
If I were a tree
All my life, &
my colour
would hide
beneath, the
leaves
that
fall.
" Take a rake & scrape them in a neat pile, my dear "
Beautiful.
❤️
Woah this poetry reading really blew me away. As a teacher (to be) there's so much usefull stuff in here, even though I'm in Belgium and don't teach English but Dutch. I'm about to translate some of the poems and use those in my lessons. Really loved Helena's reading of Phenomenal Woman!
I really appreciate Jeannette Winterson: she was profound, humorous, and an active listener. I will return to more of her own writings.
OMG, the definition of Poetry being language at its most concentrated and most distilled. Amazing words. So true. Poetry is almost like a picture being worth a thousand words in its power to convey so much in such little time.
POEMS READ IN THE PROGRAM 1/2
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Celia Celia by Adrian Mitchell
When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on.
Your Task by Rumi
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
(attributed to Rumi and translator is unknown.)
It Happens All The Time In Heaven by Hafiz
It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day
It will begin to happen
Again on earth -
That men and women who are married,
And men and men who are
Lovers,
And women and women
Who give each other
Light,
Often will get down on their knees
And while so tenderly
Holding their lover’s hand,
With tears in their eyes,
Will sincerely speak, saying,
My dear,
How can I be more loving to you;
How can I be more kind?
(From The Subject Tonight Is Love, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky)
Atlas by UA Fanthorpe
There is a kind of love called maintenance,
Which stores the WD40 and knows when to use it;
Which checks the insurance, and doesn’t forget
The milkman; which remembers to plant bulbs;
Which answers letters; which knows the way
The money goes, which deals with dentists
And Road Fund Tax and meeting trains,
And postcards to the lonely; which upholds
The permanently rickety elaborate
Structures of living; which is Atlas.
And maintenance is the sensible side of love,
Which knows what time and weather are doing
To my brickwork; insulates my faulty wiring;
Laughs at my dryrotten jokes; remembers
My need for gloss and grouting; which keeps
My suspect edifice upright in the air,
As Atlas did the sky.
Voice by Ann Sansom
Call, by all means, but just once
don’t use the broken heart again voice;
the I’m sick to death of life and women
and romance voice but with a little help
I’ll try to struggle on voice
Spare me the promise and the curse
voice, the ansafoney Call me, please
when you get in voice, the nobody knows
the trouble I’ve seen voice; the I’d value
your advice voice.
I want the how it was voice;
the call me irresponsible but aren’t I nice voice;
the such a bastard but I warn them in advance voice.
The We all have weaknesses
and mine is being wicked voice
the life’s short and wasting time’s
the only vice voice, the stay in touch,
but out of reach voice. I want to hear
the things it’s better not to broach voice
the things it’s wiser not to voice voice.
The Price by Stuart Henson
Sometimes it catches when the fumes rise up
among the throbbing lights of cars, or as
you look away to dodge eye-contact with
your own reflection in the carriage-glass;
or in a waiting-room a face reminds you
that the colour supplements have lied
and some have pleasure and some pay the price.
Then all the small securities you built
about your house, your desk, your calendar
are blown like straws; and momentarily,
as if a scent of ivy or the earth
had opened up a childhood door, you pause,
to take the measure of what might have been
against the kind of life you settled for.
Two Cures for Love by Wendy Cope
1. Don’t see him. Don’t phone or write a letter.
2. The easy way: get to know him better.
omygod thanks
Thanks for this :)
@@sawda5429 Welcome
@@sahithi9903 Welcome
Thank you!!
Let Helena Bonham Carter just talk about anything and I am happy with it.
Jason's reading of Voice was IT.
But also his reading of The peace of wild things with that American accent!
“I had no language of my own and it’s the first time language has ever left me and it was very frightening” Jeanette Winterson, incredibly powerful understated words.
This is a wonderful video, a gem in every phrase spoken or recited. Thank you.
Helena and Jason and Poetry? It seems like my kind of party :o
I'd never heard of William before. He talks so profoundly. I'm going to buy his book 🌟 I thoroughly enjoyed this talk and felt that everyone contributed something lovely for me to take away.
You know, I first discovered this in 2018, and all these years I have been revisiting it every couple of months. What I'm trying to says is, this is the greatest video on CZcams.
My favorite definition of poetry is that poems are “the stories of the soul.”
The Poet is the legislature of the heart and soul. Invisible commanders of their own world, their own unique perspective, The ubiquitous point of view, which in any given moment is always and in in everything unique. My favorite poets are Walt Whitman and Rumi. The so called secular world and the sacred world are both aspects of the One Reality. The separation between the two are conceptual only. They say the poet sees the world through rose tinted spectacles. Not true! The poet see it as it is, the good and bad and the ugly. The poet sees that to which everybody else around is oblivious to, until they are reminded. I could say more, but ponder on it. Explanations can sometimes be traps. No matter what I know, how much I know, how much I understand, I can tell you nothing that you don't already know. Poetry truly is the elixir for the soul.
@K C I'm glad your kind is relegated to the internet and is no longer welcomed in the public square. I'm sorry you've chosen to live your precious life this way.
I need bedtime stories narrated by HBC
Yessss
Got goosebumps when Helena read out Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman"
Me too! Every woman needs to recite that to herself every morning into the mirror.
I love Helena!!! I'm here for Helena Bonham Carter! ^_^
was planning to watch this while doing other things, but ended up just gulping it in one go fully focused. I needed this and didn't know it.
As a gay man in his 70s, C.P. Cavafy (brought to me by an actress of a play of whom I was SM in the '60s) has become my go-to poet in times of distress and joy. Please give him a try. Garcia Lorca's poetry can also absorb and elucidate the blazing fire and gentle meadow streams that are part of any sentient being's life.
48th-ish minute. Me coming from a Tom Hiddleston video cause I saw Helena Bonham Carter in the thumbnail. I click into the middle of the video. She speaks a sentence and it hits me, that this iis the exact same poem that truck me, when Tom Hiddleston read it in another video a day or two ago. The Very Same Poem is haunting me. And it's reminding me AGAIN what I keep getting reminded of frequently in card readings. To feast on life and bring joy back in.
Here I am, trying, while at the bottom of things.
Moreso than ever. When even getting this far has cost me tremendous effort.
Thank you so much. I cried. I finally acknowledged to myself that my late husband was not wholly responsible for our rather stale marriage, Voices.I also realised something that is a real comfort now, we also flew, really flew. Hearing such erudite people has awakened such a joy in me, awake half of the night finding poems on the internet, especially Anthony Wilson, Lifesaving poems. In this second lockdown this will be such an internal happiness, no one can lock that down. Thank you again, hope you haven’t minded me making this personal, i can imagine the poetry pharmacy sessions get quite intense.
What. A. Treat. Didn’t know I needed this.
I truly enjoyed this hour, thank you so much for posting:)
I'm a guy largely raised on the movies, when there was a TV show in the sixties called, "The Twilight Zone," and the writer/creator was the wonderful Rod Serling. As a combat veteran of WWII, many of his episodes centered around the inhumanity and irony of war. In one of my favorite episodes called, "Changing Of The Guard," Serling quoted several lines from poets like Browning, and even as a brainless 14-year old, I found myself curiously moved by the timeless beauty of their words. It seems that through the often vacuous medium of television I have managed to learn some magnificent quotes from the great poets and writers, from Shakespeare to Roddenberry, words that have stayed with me like old, dependable friends for over 60-years.
Beautiful and relatable comment 🌹
My goodness. This just came up on my playlist & even though I wasn't really interested, I love Jason Isaacs & studied literature, so I let it play. My God! I had no idea the affect this would have on me. That poem, The Mistake, resonated so hard with me. Thank you.
Completely amazed at the power of this talk and the poems. I came for Helena and ended up staying the whole way through, impacted powerfully. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this ear - and mind massage. I found this video because I searched videos with helena bonham carter and I endet up with buing the book. And like the book, I can watch and mostly listen this video several times. It is a beatiful conversation. And it was the first time I learned that when a poem is read and I hear every savoring of each word the poem comes so much more to life than silence reading. So next time i read a poem, I have to read it loud.
Thank you!
8 and a half minutes in, and I am still sitting here stunned by Jeanette Winterson's description of encountering T.S Elliott. ......The discussion had rolled on, without any acknowledgement of what she said. It is almost as if there was nothing to add. So powerful a description of the power of poetry!
Really enjoyed this! Thank you all involved! Mr. Isaacs, you're a fantastic reader. I loved you as Malfoy, AND as Lorca, loved you as the inquisitor, loved you as Commander Zhao, loved you as Captain Hook and in so many other roles, and I was so excited to see your involvement with my first love, poetry.
Wow, I cried during "It happens all the time in heaven". I needed that.
Poetry is really powerful, it brings out the angel and monster of the reader but also hits the very bottom of emotions. How I wish I had this experience in the classroom when I was a student, I would have appreciated it more in my early years.
Helen reading Love After Love was amazing 💕
I loved seeing Jason Issacs rapt attention as the final poem was read. Complete presence, totally in the moment. Bliss. That alone, could tempt a non-believer to try poetry at least once. Wonderful recording. Thanks to all involved. God be with the days.
I'm 78. When I was at school a trainee teacher introduced us to 'Other Men's Flowers'. Poems collected by Load Wavell. It was first printed in 1941. I bought my kids a copy each two years ago (2008). I've had a copy since I left school. My first copy got lost so I had to replace it.
Poetry is not just words, but also the silent voice that speaks to our soul!
This is poem by itself! Love it!
This is poem by itself!
It is so good to hear English with British accent! Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed all the poems read here and learned the importance of poems in our lives.
I have been a Poet in isolation all of my life; how I now wish I had engaged with others of that ilk. So much can be shared and absorbed through a forum such as this one. My sincere thanks to all concerned and to 'Intelligence squared'
Thank you all so much for gifting us this opportunity to observe, learn, enjoy... bless🙏🏽👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Why do pathological angry bitter personalities bother to roam CZcams simply to regurgitate their bile over us who simply want to be entertained,educated,and yes amused Poetry has been an inspiration a consolation and by the genius of the creative artist helped to develop my sensibilities and fully relish the English language.Great actors and authors reading great poems for an hour and half! How bads that sados.
In my SIX minutes of viewing, I have been interrupted with commercials THREE times. What a shame to mar such a soul-filling discussion with these excessive breaks. It discourages viewing a program from which many would benefit.
Sign up for CZcams premium ? no ads
Seriously. Quite annoying and completely distracted from the conversation. It's fairly sad when videos on what used to be a free platform for information and content sharing have turned into greed and money accumulation for folks who don't even have a need for said money.
get an adblocker
fuck youtube
@@tenyc3449 don't be greedy yourself. Pay for a good quality content made for you to enjoy
Here girl, let me give you a real life hack, either A use pc, aka Adblocker, or if on phone, fast forward the video until the end and dont have autoplay on next video on in the settings. It will remove all the ads, then just click replay on the video - no ads, enjoy.
I came for Helena, and had never really understood the power of poetry until I heard this. Thank you!
It happens all the time in heaven had me choking and sobbing for a few moments. I bursted to tears.
"Celia, Celia" is one of my favourites of all time too. So happy to hear my favourite actress read it :))
Please do more of this! I have seen the power of Poetry on young people. Loved what was said about teaching it!
I found this youtube account thanks to algorithm gods and I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GREATFUL. The poem "failing and flying " brought me to tears. Thank you for this and if you can please listen to their episode about SPEECHES that changed history. Another gem!!!!!!!!
Jeanette Winterson's greatness can be observed in her tremendous capacity for joy, compassion for the comedy in pain, and the salvation she preserves for us all.
Thank you, Jeanette Winterson. Your art makes life bearable.
Omg Jason... You took my heart flying above the cloud with your mesmerizing voice~ Thank you for bringing joy to my life!
I have watched this at just the right time. loved all the poems and everyone on the panel thank you
Poetry always seemed so distant and alien to my life. This video has changed my feelings about poetry. Thank you for opening my heart to poetry as a Rx and a touchstone to the past, present and how i can chose how I feel about my future.
Opened my eyes, ears , mind and soul. James Fenton poem ... sadly brings the deepest realisation. Yet so many enlightenments still unfolding .
I find difficult to express how much I love the Internet
Jason Isaacs ♥♥♥ HBC and Poetry = Perfection.
The story William told about the gay Muslim man just hits hard. The atmosphere was quiet and emotional. The poem is wonderful.
These are poems I’ve been desperately needing to hear for years. So grateful to have come across this and to have clicked. ☺️
what an interesting and engaging video. I love poetry and attempt to write poetry. I particularly enjoyed the freedom of the event, where they were plucking out poems from here and there, even off the phone. This has given me more encouragement to discover poems I don't know or don't understand fully, and to continue on my poetry journey.
Great Video.
Helena Bonham Carter is like Amy Nuttall, Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, Daniel Craig, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Karen Gillan, Bonnie Wright, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley, Geoffrey Rush, Jeremy Irons one of my favorite actors and artists.
Poetry, above everything else, has kept me sane through the Covid pandemic. As an adult I have discovered so many amazing poets - Felix Dennis and Maya Angelou are just two that instantly spring to mind - and is my 'go to' in times of sadness as well as great joy. Thank you.
This is the best thing that’s showed up on my algorithm in a long time. Loved this! 🧡
I actually sought after it
Utterly, utterly wonderful. The power of poetry, the power of voice - sit back and enjoy this astonishingly good session :)
I loved this as I love poetry- it goes straight to the soul. I tuned in to hear Tom Burke’s wonderful voice reading poetry. I was impressed by all the readers. Well done.
English is not my language . It’s strange for me to feel and understand poetry cause during my lessons at school never understood it in my native language but here I understand and feel it. I have joy listening and it’s giving me reflections that’s amazing
I really like Tom's recitations. His voice is mesmerising.
The story about the school kids and Marc Anthony is hilarious! "And I pointed one of them out as Brutus" :D
Also love that Jack Gilbert poem (Failing and Flying).
This is stunning, I loved all the lecture! We need more of these please
Although I found it two years after the event took place by a happy coincidence, I have to say that I have rarely enjoyed an event recording like I did this one. And the inclusion of Jeanette Winterson was the cherry on top; what a great assemble and lovely event. Thank you.
Thank you so much for posting this. I learnt and experienced beautiful things that had you not uploaded this, it would not have been accessible for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you
She looks like she's come straight from Harry Potter
Congratulations. Now, you may think out why they invited her, and put it on the title
Rude
Yes, indeed. I anwsered the wrong comment. I have nothing agaisnt her or her style
But, do think why would they ask her to participate, and put her in the title. If one can not see the intents of merchandise... Well, I prefer to sound rude
Well yeah, you are right
I read this in a lovely book that I am reading. I’ll be a poet, and you’ll be a poetry.-Francois Coppee. I love poetry. Good medicine indeed. Thank you
God bless you for giving me a key to the “Pharmacy of Poetry”, William!
Thank you heartedly recommending this . Opened my resolve to do better faster.
Wonderful to connect with all the panelists - Jeannette Winterson - even her reactions to others .. opens a window.
i should note that the poem "It happens all the time" is not originally from Hafiz, its actually a poem by Daniel Ladinsky who's written several books in the name of the great poet Hafiz but doesn't even know persian and his poems bear little or no resemblance to what Hafez has composed.
True, and also Western poets tend to eliminate many references. Persian literature is one of the greatest contributions to humanity.
Helena could read to me, always.
William is amazing, I came out of general interest but stayed for William. He has been given an incredible gift and he gives it back so well.
Made me cry. Really beautiful, all this.
I’m only one minute into the intros. I already feel better for having come here.
This was just the thing for me, after months of Lockdown, too many crime series, needing a break from reading. Thank you.
This video just started after watching something completely unrelated... and I feel this is the fitst time social media has done something good! "Why was poetry a school thing you never picked up again?" ... Thanx youTube for opening this door and loads of likes for everybody on this panel and Cheers to the UK, you are awesome, never forget 💪