Category: Poems for the NHS
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Bilingual Poems on Display in Central Middlesex Hospital
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…
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A New Constituency in 2025 ?
During the last weeks of 2024, libraries from all over the UK were registering on this website, gaining immediate access to all the poems we have available. Potentially, a whole new audience, or constituency of interest, has just discovered the project. The development followed a short feature put out on the regular bulletin of an…
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“Modern Poetry in Translation” and “The Reader”
“Poems for the wall” has began some collaborative work with two organisations : “Modern Poetry in Translation” and “The Reader.” On the face of it, these organisations, or projects, are quite different. But they have in common a belief in, and a commitment to, honest words of high quality and integrity, true witness, in whatever…
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Poems Displayed on Plasma Screens
The plasma display screen is now common in all kinds of public settings, including schools, libraries and healthcare waiting rooms. So here is yet another form of screen for the eye to rest on, when already there are so many. And is “resting” the right word ? The screens’ contents tend not be passive. Many…
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Poems for…the wall in Bristol, Summer 2018
When “Poems for… the wall” was piloted in London twenty years ago, it was a local affair. Some small poem-posters were put up in NHS waiting rooms in Hammersmith and Kensington. However, as the project became quickly better known and demand spread, it lost contact with an immediate locality. The poems went out far and…