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    A World of Sighs

    Sun 13 August 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm BST

    £10.00 – £12.00

    13 August 2017, Edinburgh

    FROM POETRY TO PRAYER

    Seen historically as a way of maintaining a healthy body and mind through the expelling of melancholy, sighing is now fertile ground for psychologists to assess a person’s emotional state. For a history of the sigh, from poetry to prayer and health to ecstasy, join Pakistan-born poet Imtiaz Dharker, Dr Naya Tsentourou, who has studied the relationship between emotion and breath in the Renaissance, and Prof Corinne Saunders from Life of Breath, Durham University.

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    Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Taking the Air series.

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    Date:
    Sun 13 August 2017
    Time:
    6:30 pm - 7:30 pm UTC+0
    Cost:
    £10.00 – £12.00
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    Website:
    https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/a-world-of-sighs