The Poetry Pharmacy Returns

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).