Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life

Name: Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9780571325702
Price: 15.29 EUR
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By (author): William Sieghart

Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most magical moments. From William Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, our most popular and best loved poets and poems are gathered in one essential collection, alongside many lesser known treasures that are waiting to be discovered. These are poems that help you to see the miraculous in the commonplace and turn the everyday into the exceptional - to discover, in Kipling's words, that yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. See more

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Weight: 195g
Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
Publication Date: 19 Mar 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571325702

About William Sieghart

William Sieghart is founder and Chairman of Forward Thinking a London-based NGO founded in 2003. William has also had a distinguished career in publishing and the arts. He founded Forward Publishing in 1988 one of London's leading magazine publishers. He was also the founder of the Forward Poetry Prizes Britain's largest prizes for poetry and National Poetry Day. For many years he was a member of the Arts Council and Chairman of its Lottery Committee. He is currently Chairman of the Arts Foundation Streetsmart - a homelessness charity he founded in 1998 and Forward Arts Foundation. William is a Trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Free Word Reprieve Cuba Studies Trust and on the advisory committee of the British Institute of Human Rights. Sieghart is also a published author and a regular broadcaster.Winning Words was a national initiative conceived by Sieghart founder of National Poetry Day to incorporate poetry into the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.