William Sieghart

William Sieghart has had a distinguished career in publishing and the arts. He established the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 1992, and founded National Poetry Day in 1994. He is a former chairman of the Arts Council Lottery Panel, and current chairman of both the Somerset House Trust and Forward Thinking, a charity seeking peace in the Middle East and acceptance of British Muslims. His previous anthologies include Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life (2014), Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry (2015) and 100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five Years of the Forward Books (2016).

Books by William Sieghart

The Poetry Pharmacy Forever

William Sieghart

The world has reopened and so has the Poetry Pharmacy: the powerful final instalment in the hugely beloved series

The Poetry Pharmacy Returns

William Sieghart

After two busy years on the road, the Poetry Pharmacist is back on the page with new prescriptions, readers' most-loved poems, and more tried-and-true classics from the pharmacy vault

The Poetry Pharmacy

William Sieghart

As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from 'Dr' Sieghart's poetic dispensary