CATCHING LIFE BY THE THROAT, How to Read Poetry and Why, With CD.

HART, Josephine, Founder of Gallery Poets etc

ISBN 10: 1844083926 / ISBN 13: 9781844083923

Published by VIRAGO PRESS LTD, 2006

About this Item

Poems from eight great Poets in the English language. The author;- former Director of Haymarket Publishing - Founder of Gallery Poets - producer of West End Plays etc. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for Further details, CD and condition. 225x145mm. 238pp. Book with Dust Jacket & CD - as new [no insc. not price clipped £15.].

Seller Inventory # 136223

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CATCHING LIFE BY THE THROAT, How to Read Poetry and Why, With CD.
• Publisher: VIRAGO PRESS LTD
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844083926
• ISBN 13: 9781844083923
• Binding: Hard Back
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Poetry
  • Performing Arts

About this title

Synopsis

This book is an anthology of poems by WH Auden, TS Eliot, Philip Larkin, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Rudyard Kipling, Sylvia Plath and W B Yeats, introduced by Josephine Hart and accompanied by a complimentary 80 minute CD featuring a selection of the actors' readings.
'The idea is simple,' says Josephine Hart as she introduces the poets and takes us through their life and writings, 'an understanding of the life and philosophy of the poet illuminates the poetry and therefore makes the experience of reading or listening to each poem more intense.'
'This book will, I hope, bring the magic of the events to a much greater audience.' Whether you believe, like Robert Frost, that poetry is a way of catching life by the throat or, like Eliot, it is one person talking to another, nobody does it better than the poets whose work and life will feature in this publication.

About the Author

Josephine Hart was a Director of Haymarket Publishing and founded Gallery Poets before going on to produce a number of West End plays. She is the bestselling author of Damage, Sin, Oblivion and The Reconstructionist. She is married to Maurice Saatchi and has two sons.