BookBrunch - Poems for life

My childhood private passion has become my career: I spend most of my time reading poetry, writing about poetry, and banging the metaphorical drum for poetry. Over the past few years I've tried to remind people how remarkable and exhilarating poetry is. I've co-created apps such as iF Poems and The Love Book, where fantastic actors - Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hiddleston, Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory, Emma Watson and others - read poems aloud, taking ancient words off the page and bringing them to life.

Humans have been writing poetry for thousands of years - even before we had written languages, people spoke poetry aloud in an oral tradition, preserving history and mythology in huge poetic sagas that changed and developed with each retelling.