William Sieghart

William Sieghart has had a long career in publishing and the arts. He established the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 1992 and founded National Poetry Day in 1994. His Poetry Pharmacy began touring in 2014; since then, and particularly since the publications of the enormously successful The Poetry Pharmacy (2017), The Poetry Pharmacy Returns (2019), and The Poetry Pharmacy Forever (2023), he has prescribed thousands of poems up and down the UK over hundreds of hours of in-person consultations.

Books by William Sieghart

The Poetry Pharmacy Forever

William Sieghart

The world has reopened and so has the Poetry Pharmacy: the powerful final instalment in the hugely beloved series

The Poetry Pharmacy Returns

William Sieghart

After two busy years on the road, the Poetry Pharmacist is back on the page with new prescriptions, readers' most-loved poems, and more tried-and-true classics from the pharmacy vault

The Poetry Pharmacy

William Sieghart

As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from 'Dr' Sieghart's poetic dispensary