Any chance I get to talk about poetry I grab. So when mental heath campaigner Rachel Kelly and I were asked to contribute to the Break Out Culture by Country Town and House podcast with Ed Vaizey and Charlotte Metcalf, I didn’t hesitate to say yes! You can listen to our musings here.

The enduring and radical value of poetry But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling like dew upon a thought can make thousands,If not millions think. Lord Byron (Don Juan) Can poetry have any real meaning in the modern world? Can the utterance of a poet have any more relevance than the extraordinary

Here’s a great article by Stephanie Denning on why business leaders might benefit from reading poetry instead of (or at least as well as) books like The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck.

Leaders will need to be resilient, open-minded, and creative. Poetry can show them the way BY CLARE MORGAN AND MASSIMO PORTINCASO Here’s a fascinating article well worth a read. It explains how leaders are being called on to engage in a new and extremely challenging kind of dual thinking – to manage the present creatively

If not for lockdown, our acclaimed film ‘Lift Me Up I Am Dying would never have happened, it would have been a live tribute to John Keats, performed, on the bicentenary of his death in front of an invited audience, in the historic rooms at John Murray, at no 50 Albemarle Street. When everything got