Josephine Hart and Jeremy Irons: On Poetry

“It’s only when you read it aloud that it begins to sing,“ says the world-renowned actor Jeremy Irons, who, along with many other prominent members of England’s artistic community, frequently participates in the poetry readings organized by Josephine Hart in London’s West End. Hart began the reading series in an effort to renew the public’s interest in the “compressed power“ of poetry. In this video, Irons and Hart discuss the series and how poetry can awaken people’s minds to the infinite possibilities of language.