On Thursday the 4th of November, the Sixth Form were delighted to welcome Mr William Sieghart to the Sixth Form Speaker Programme.

Mr Sieghart is the founder of the Forward Art Foundation, who established the Forward Poetry Prizes and National Poetry Day. Mr Sieghart spoke about the healing power of poetry, and the importance it holds in British culture, and our lives. He passionately read from his book, ‘The Poetry Pharmacy’, in which he provides poetic prescriptions for every malady: a Hardy for heartache? A Larkin for loneliness? His words were inspired, moving, and appealed to the hearts of both the poetry-lovers and those newly arrived at the delights of poetry.