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Rhyme & reason

BIBLIOTHERAPIST ELLA BERTHOUD SUGGESTS SOME GENTLE WAYS TO INTRODUCE THE JOYS OF POETRY INTO YOUR LIFE
Many of us groan when we are asked to read poetry – we’re transported back to school, when we slogged through sonnets and odes, impenetrable epics and that strange staple of teachers, the acrostic. For many, poetry conjures up baffled incomprehension. As a ‘bibliotherapist’, I am a reader of novels and short stories primarily – I look to fiction to cure all life’s ailments. But I love to read poetry too, even though it isn’t what I instinctively pick up. Like many people, I expect poetry to be opaque, and to take work to understand. But when I do read it, I’m struck by the deep effect it has on me, its power and magic, even when by its very form, it is defined by its brevity. In poems I…
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