Poetry in the Waiting Room is a new project based on one which has been running very successfully in the UK now for more than 10 years.
We are awaiting funds from a grant application so watch this space.
Poems in the Waiting Room is a new project in county Kildare to provide poetry leaflets for waiting rooms all over the county.
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Poems in the Waiting Room is a pilot project to supply a short collection of poems for people in waiting rooms in County Kildare. Initially these are doctor's surgeries, hospitals and libraries, places the public has to wait. The waiting room is the one place that at some point, everyone has to pause. It is a room full of strangers that levels us and where we have a chance to reflect. Poetry can help humanise these impersonal places. And hopefully, some people will take away something more than a brief relief to the boredom or worry of the wait. They will take away a newly awakened appreciation of poetry.
Download Poem Posters to print out and display in your waiting room
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What type of poetry?
The poetry is carefully chosen firstly to be accessible. Many people complain of being put off poetry since school so experimental or demanding poetry would not work well in this context. It must also be sensitive to the possible feelings of people in a waiting room, frustrated, worried, even emotionally disturbed. The poetry should speak to all parts of the community. Poems include those from from contemporary poets especially Kildare based writers. This new work will be put alongside older poems, which are familiar to the older generation, poems for children, which are also enjoyed by adults.
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- Ann Egan (1)
- Apply (1)
- Aspen Falls (1)
- Bed In Summer (2)
- Emily Dickinson (1)
- Funding (2)
- Future (1)
- Grant (1)
- Hope (1)
- Iggy McGovern (2)
- Jenny Kissed Me (1)
- Leigh Hunt (1)
- Poems (3)
- Poster (1)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (3)
- Sonnet 130 (2)
- The Difference (1)
- William Shakespeare (2)
Optional Donation
If you would like to make a donation, however large or small, to pay for the costs in keeping this project running, please click here. You can choose the amount. Credit cards can be accepted using Paypal.
4 comments:
brilliant, excellent idea. how i wish there were some in some of the dreary places in london.
how about providing them to patients in wards as well?
please consider single short stories as well.
Hi Ossian,
Thanks for your comments. There is a UK organisation so all your dreary places in London need to do is ask to be included in their project.
The publication is one page so you'd only get one short story, but it's an idea all right.
Good idea - like poetry on the Dart. Hope it gets the funding!
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