Category: poems on mental health
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Exhibition of Bilingual Poems in Clifton Cathedral
Here is a link to some photographs of poems displayed, greatly enlarged, on the walls of Clifton Cathedral in the Spring of 2019. Just click on the first image and it will expand. Then keep clicking on an arrow that appears on the right of each picture, to take you through to the end…
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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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What’s Italian for “Poems for…the Wall” ?
A really nice article about this project has recently been published in a good Italian arts website called “Margutte.” The piece was initially written in English, mostly for this site. But then Margutte’s editor, Silvia Pio, edited the text of the English with great skill and good judgement, making it an article. She then translated…
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Reaching into Bristol – new partnerships
Based these days in Bristol, “Poems for…the wall” has started to work in partnership with the Bristol Poetry Institute. The BPI is based in the literature department of Bristol University. The BPI has not only procured some seed money for us, but has also been greatly helpful in providing local contacts and opportunities. Thanks to…
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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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Two new “Poems for…” collections available
The two collections were launched in Bristol in the Autumn of 2015. The charity United Response assisted. The mental health collection is called “Poems for…Self at Sea” and consists of 30 poems. It was funded by NHS Westminster. The learning disability collection is called “Poems for…Bridges to Learning Disability.” This one consists of 20 poems…