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  • Exhibition of Bilingual Poems in Clifton Cathedral

    Clifton (Roman Catholic) Cathedral was built in a Bristol suburb in the 1960’s and 70’s. You can find it near the Brunel suspension bridge, looking massive and unexpected. In the Spring of 2019, the cathedral played host to an exhibition of poems selected from the Poems for…the Wall collections. Most of the poems were bilingual,…

  • “Poems for the wall” heads south west

    A very good international magazine called “Resurgence,” based in Devon, did a feature on the project in July this year. Click here for the online version. And during November, an exhibition of the project’s bilingual poems went up in a busy public setting run by Bristol University. The poems make a strong public statement of mutual…

  • Further Poems for…the wall developments

    The charity’s  Poems for… project (now re-named Poems for the wall) has launched two new collections for use in schools. With help from the charity United Response, the new collections were launched in Bristol. The larger collection seeks to communicate some of the experience of having mental health problems. The other seeks the same thing with…

  • Catching up

    Through the first half of 2017 this website is changing in various ways. Partly in how it looks. Partly in its role. The change is due partly to the fact that the site was looking increasingly dated. But also it was no longer doing a real job. It began as a description of the charity’s…

  • Poems for…the wall developments

    For nearly ten years now, the charity’s “Poems for…” project has been offering bilingual poem-posters for public display. Mostly they go to school-teachers, for use in schools all over the world. More recently two new collections have been added. One is on mental health, the other on Learning Disability. The collections were launched in Bristol…

  • The Death of Mary Young, Hyphen-21 Trustee

    Mary Young Born 12th December 1924. Died 29th April 2012. Introduction Mary was a long-standing Trustee of Hyphen-21 and so it is fitting that a tribute to her should appear on the charity’s web-site. Mary Young was a woman of great gifts and profound sensitivity, warmth and insight. She also masked and disguised herself with…

  • High Wire Connection across a big break

    This online bulletin at the end of July 2012 can serve as an update.For those interested, we shall be uploading in the near future a copy of the Director’s report recently sent in to Companies House, updating on developments up until Christmas 2012. The same report has also been uploaded on the Charity Commissions website.…

  • Michael Rosen’s poem to celebrate the NHS joins “Poems for…” and goes bilingual

    Photograph: Graham Turner 2008 was the 60th birthday of the NHS. As part of the celebrations, the NHS commissioned Michael Rosen, still then the official Children’s Poet Laureate, to write a poem. His “These are the Hands” is meant to be for children but is appreciated by all age-groups. With its subject a health service…

  • Does Listening to People Need Skill ? Does it Matter ?

    An opinion piece by Rogan Wolf has been published in the February edition of “Open Mind,” a bi-monthly periodical produced by “MIND,” the national charity. The full version of the piece can be read here. It expresses Rogan’s concern that top-down directives requiring managers to consult with the users of their services, have led to…

  • “Poems for…the wall” website attracts world-wide interest

    Rogan Wolf, the project worker for “Poems for…the wall”, put together the short report during Christmas 2008. It entailed tracking all the registrations the new site had received since the April launch, and establishing where they had come from and how they planned to use poem-posters once down-loaded. You can read the report here.Findings from…