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Winning Words
Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life
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This book is ideal for poetry enthusiasts and anyone seeking motivation and comfort through literature. It is perfect for readers who appreciate the transformative power of poetry in everyday life and enjoy discovering both classic and lesser-known voices.
Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life - edited by William Sieghart - is a book for every occasion, to let the spirit soar, whether you are looking for inspiration or expression, reflection or recognition.
Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life - edited by William Sieghart - is a book for every occasion, to let the spirit soar, whether you are looking for inspiration or expression, reflection or recognition.
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Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a newborn or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most magical moments.
From William Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, our most popular and best loved poets and poems are gathered in one essential collection, alongside many lesser-known treasures that are waiting to be discovered. These are poems that help you to see the miraculous in the commonplace and turn the everyday into the exceptional - to discover, in Kipling's words, that yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
Winning Words by William Sieghart is your companion for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, providing reflections for every milestone and challenge in life.
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ISBN: 9780571325702
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 March 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 195g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
William Sieghart is founder and Chairman of Forward Thinking, a London-based NGO founded in 2003. William has also had a distinguished career in publishing and the arts. He founded Forward Publishing in 1988, one of London's leading magazine publishers. He was also the founder of the Forward Poetry Prizes, Britain's largest prizes for poetry and National Poetry Day. For many years he was a member of the Arts Council and Chairman of its Lottery Committee. He is currently Chairman of the Arts Foundation, Streetsmart - a homelessness charity he founded in 1998 and Forward Arts Foundation. William is a Trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Free Word, Reprieve, Cuba Studies Trust and on the advisory committee of the British Institute of Human Rights. Sieghart is also a published author and a regular broadcaster.Winning Words was a national initiative conceived by Sieghart, founder of National Poetry Day, to incorporate poetry into the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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