Bilingual poems from this project are on permanent (and prominent) display in one of London’s major hospitals. The poems have just been re-formatted and freshly mounted there. You can find them near the main entrance of the ACAD Centre, part of the Central Middlesex Hospital.

Photograph by Nicholas Pole

The Centre is London’s newest hospital and is situated in the Park Royal industrial estate, north west London, between Ealing and Brent. It serves one of the most ethnically diverse areas of London.

It was in recognition of the region’s diversity, that the decision was made to display these poems. There are ten of them, mounted in a line. Each poem features a different language spoken locally as a mother tongue. Alongside and opposite the original poem, is its English translation. In alphabetical order, the languages are : Albanian, Greek Cypriot, Hebrew, Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, Romanian, Somali, Turkish Cypriot, Urdu.

The project’s Poems for…one world collection includes a large number of these bilingual poems, with a total of fifty languages represented, so far.