Category: Poetry & Wellbeing

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

Older voices on BBC Shropshire Radio

So delightful this morning to have the chance to share poems made with residents of Highwell House Nursing Home on BBC Radio Shropshire with the wonderfully enthusiastic Jim Hawkins. The link is here: and the clip is at 1hr: 39  (or listen to the show from 1h for more on poetry in Shropshire, including Jonathan Day‘s new work ‘Lyric’). Here’s one of the poems I read.  It was … Continue reading Older voices on BBC Shropshire Radio

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

Poetry, Punch & Judy in a Care Home

The children sat in front, legs crossed, looking up. You want to be a bit scared, then brought back into the real world again. He had a trail of children following him,  just like the Pied Piper, all bewitched. This week I was working in a Herefordshire care home with a large group of elderly people, many of whom are living with dementia.  I work … Continue reading Poetry, Punch & Judy in a Care Home

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