Category: Poetry & Wellbeing

Poet in School, Poetry & Wellbeing, Poetry in the Community

‘The wood is as rough as a black bear’

Last week, on a day with a distinct October nip in the air, I walked back to the woods with Bucknell Primary’s Key Stage 2 class, as part of my project ‘In woods we forget things, at the wood edge we tell stories’.  We carried laminated copies of the children’s poems, and cameras to film their performances under the trees they chose to write for. … Continue reading ‘The wood is as rough as a black bear’

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Poetry & Dementia, poetry & older people, Poetry & Wellbeing, Poetry in the Community

Poetry and #dementiaawarenessweek

At 8am this morning I was on the phone to BBC Hereford & Worcester, talking about making poems with people living with dementia, and later on, I was in Highwell House Nursing Home in Bromyard, really making poems. I shared printouts of a painting by Joan Eardley around the room of ten people.  Not everyone has dementia, though several have it quite badly.  I’ve been … Continue reading Poetry and #dementiaawarenessweek

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