Author: Jean Atkin

I'm a poet and educator, work on community projects and collaborations.
Poetry & Dementia, Poetry in the Community

Barrels and Orchards of Apples

A wonderful afternoon full of laughter and conversation with elderly people in a Herefordshire Nursing Home.  I work regularly as a poet with the Courtyard Arts’ award-winning project, ‘In The Pink’, which employs professional poets to go into care settings to work with people living with dementia. The project is mentored by John Killick. I took in a bag of different Herefordshire apples – Crispin, … Continue reading Barrels and Orchards of Apples

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Poetry & Wellbeing, Poetry in the Community

Just contrails passing/ over us, & near/ a blackbird warns

We met in Loudwater Studio in Ludlow to work on various kinds of art reflecting the project ‘Loudwater Studio in the Shropshire Hills’.  All these different pieces will form part of a three-dimensional sketchbook recording the visits of Loudwater Studio clients to five different and special places in the Shropshire Hills. These beautiful birds are made from paper and Modrock plaster of Paris, with wire … Continue reading Just contrails passing/ over us, & near/ a blackbird warns

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