Anthony Rudolf: ‘His philosophy was practical and his practice, developed during years of work when his resilience and courage were tested, had affinities with aspects of, on the one hand, the existential psychotherapy of Viktor Frankl and Hans Cohn (like Heimler, Cohn was also a poet) and, on the other hand, cognitive behavioural therapy, later to become so popular.’

Berengarten: ‘Curiously, far from separating us, COVID emphasises our community and, perhaps, even creates our communality, which is inevitably universal, since nobody (human), even if inoculated, can be entirely excluded from the risk of catching this plague.’

Ian Seed: ‘I walked into a square behind Corso Garibaldi, one of the few quiet spots in that area of Milan. I looked up at a tree’s bare branches against the night sky, and suddenly remembered the front cover of Penguin Modern Poets 12. I knew I’d made the right decision, even though I had little idea of what I was going to do next.’

Alan Wall: ‘When Christians decided to impose their figural readings on the Hebrew Bible, and to employ typology, they deemed the text before them to be allegorical, or at least to have allegorical potential.’