Category: Poems for…the waiting room
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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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Poems for Rising Ten
This project’s most recent collection was launched in October 2022. “Poems for Rising Ten” is for children approaching the end of their time in primary school. There are 25 poems in all, each one accompanied by art work. In most cases, the images are not literal illustrations as such. I think they offer something richer…
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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…
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“Poems for the wall” breaks surface in the south west
A very good international magazine called “Resurgence,” based in Devon, did a feature on the project in August this year. Click here for the online version. And during November, an exhibition of the project’s bilingual poems went up in a busy public setting run by Bristol University. The poems make a strong public statement of mutual…
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Six Developments for Summer 2017
Our new title – Poems for…the wall. It makes clearer the fact that we supply poems for public space. It doesn’t affect the titles of our collections. This new website – It is almost finished now. It is striking to look at ; it is technically up to the mark ; it is simple to use. Thanks…
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Poems for…Bridges to Anatolia
“Poems for…Bridges to Anatolia” is based largely – though not entirely – on the translation work over the years of the Turkish poet Mevlut Ceylan. Ceylan lived in London for many years and under the title “Core Publications” produced a significant number of booklets that feature and celebrate Turkish poetry. Each is translated into English,…
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“Please Take a Seat – you’ll be seen shortly”
In 1999, the poet David Hart was asked by the Arts Council to commission 50 short poems about waiting, as part of the “Poems for…” collection. The fifty poets included well-known poets such as Andrew Motion the Poet Laureate and Carol Ann Duffy – as well as poets still largely unknown outside their own circles.…