Category: Poetry & Wellbeing

Poetry & Dementia, Poetry & Wellbeing, Poetry in the Community

In The Pink – a poetry project with people living with dementia

Lillian cups a tiny bird’s nest in today’s session in a Hereford Care Home.  She isn’t able to speak much, but she was utterly delighted.  It was marvellous to be able to bring such pleasure. What bird lived here?  So sweet. Soft.   Keeps warm, I expect. I don’t think we could do that. They’re so clever. They just do it with their beaks. true     … Continue reading In The Pink – a poetry project with people living with dementia

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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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