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‘Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind’

Rudyard Kipling

There are many ways of dealing with stress: a walk in the park, a cup of tea and a chat with a friend, a long hot bath, or that form of practised meditation which has become known as ‘mindfulness’.

In this little book, we would like to share another remedy, in fact one of the oldest remedies of all: the reading of poetry.