to death at dinner parties by saying that I couldn't understand why there were no public readings of great poetry", she [Josephine Hart] founded Gallery Poets, now the monthly Josephine Hart Poetry Hour at the British Library. It saw Hart match actors with poetry for a series of public readings. Participants included Ralph Fiennes on Auden to Roger Moore on Kipling and Juliet Stevenson on Emily Dickinson."Poetry, this trinity of sound, sense and sensibility, to me gives voice to experience like no other literary art form. It has been a source of joy, sometimes a lifeline," she wrote in the Guardian.
from The Guardian: Josephine Hart, novelist and poetry promoter, dies aged 69
then The Guardian: Josephine Hart obituary
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