I’m just back from a rewarding morning making poems at Coldwells House, a care home near Hereford. Today there was a group of a dozen, quite a few of whom I’d met before, but not seen for three months. I took in copies of an Eric Ravilious print ‘Wiltshire landscape’ (1937). We all talked about the picture, and what it meant, and what everyone saw … Continue reading Only the van
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
JEAN ATKIN 