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Poems for Rising Ten
Poems for the wall is a project which Hyphen-21 has been managing and overseeing for over twenty years. The poems are formatted as posters and made available online free of charge for public display. The common space we first envisaged was the healthcare waiting room. Later demand came from schools and libraries. The project has…
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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,…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…