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Josephine Hart

November 2014

  • Maurice Saatchi with his beloved wife, the late novelist Josephine Hart.

    The Observer profile
    Maurice Saatchi: the greatest campaign for the love of his life

    Profile: When his wife died from cancer, the former advertising giant was, and remains, heartbroken. Now, under attack from 100 health experts, he is set on pushing through a bill to allow more experimental treatment of the disease

November 2012

  • Life Saving: Why We Need Poetry by Josephine Hart – review

    Hart's guide to the great poets, taken from her popular public events, is graceful and good-humoured, writes Anita Sethi

December 2011

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    Obituaries of 2011
    Josephine Hart remembered by Ed Victor

    She was fierce, intense, passionate… and the kindest person I ever met, writes her friend and agent Ed Victor

November 2011

  • Damage, film still

    Damage – the author's introduction

    Josephine Hart's debut novel, Damage, was an instant success. She wrote this, a new introduction to the tale of erotic obsession, just before her death earlier this year

June 2011

  • Josephine Hart

    Virago modern classics
    Josephine Hart obituary

  • Josephine Hart

    Josephine Hart, novelist and poetry promoter, dies aged 69

October 2009

  • Scribes of eternity

    Josephine Hart

    Josephine Hart: Poets deserve our thanks for their dedication to the craft of capturing and preserving experience

March 2009

  • In remembrance of Ireland

    Review: The Truth About Love, Josephine Hart - an ambitious book, which sets out to say something both about the individual capacity for love and the love of country and tribe, Geraldine Bedell

February 2009

  • Is it an island I'm on?

    Review: The Truth About Love by Josephine Hart
    Joseph O'Connor is haunted by a family story that mirrors Irish history

May 2008

  • Female forms

    Diary: Josephine Hart Poetry Hour at the British Library, featuring readings of work by Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Bishop

June 2007

  • The visionary company of love

    Josephine Hart

    Commentary: Martin Amis declared poetry is in decline. Far from it, argues Josephine Hart.

November 2006

  • Sound, sense and sensibility

    Josephine Hart

    Commentary: Josephine Hart on her ambition to take spoken poetry into every classroom.

October 2006

  • Books blog
    Poetry should be heard and not seen

    Why the spoken word is essential for the 'echo chambers of our minds'.

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