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14/08/09
Michael Rosen, ex-Children's Poet Laureate in the UK, has agreed that his commissioned poem about the NHS "These are the Hands" can join the "Poems for..." collection and be translated into different languages.
25/02/09
Hyphen-21 backs proposal for a code of professional practice for service user consultation.
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22/04/08
Poet Laureate launches new website
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Andrew Motion reading at the Nehru Centre Inauguration.
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The Poet Laureate Andrew Motion launched the new web-site on April 22nd in London. The site allows people to down-load and print for themselves the 145 poem-posters we've put together so far. Future collections will also be displayed on the site as soon as they’ve been completed. The launch took place at the Nehru Centre, near Hyde Park Corner. The Centre was founded by the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and is part of the work of the Indian Embassy. Its purpose is to strengthen Anglo-Indian understanding, chiefly through the arts.
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Eighteen of the project's bilingual poems were exhibited at the launch, many of them by poets from from south Asia. The posters were enlarged to A2 size especially for the event and remained on display for the following week. Over 100 people attended. Jules Mann, the Director of the Poetry Society, was one. A previous Director, Chris Meade, was also present.
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Chris helped obtain funding for the pilot phase of Poems for... over ten years ago. Andrew Motion inaugurated the poster exhibition and a presentation of the new site with a short ceremony, traditional at the Nehru Centre, which involves the lighting of candles at a small altar. In his speech he
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expressed admiration for "Poems for..." above all for its primary vision that good poetry belongs in the everyday and the everywhere, and can offer warm and vital connection across ethnic and cultural difference. Three poems were then read out. Vidya Misra read her poem “Black Tears”
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| in Hindi, Rogan Wolf following with the English version. Amarjit Chandan read his Punjabi poem “The Peacock in Walpole Park, Ealing” Stephen Watts reading the English version. Finally, Andrew Motion read his own poem “While I wait for You.” This was originally commissioned by the poet David Hart as part of the first of the “Poems for…” collections – “Poems for…Waiting.” |
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Pictures by Joseph Wolf and Noel Bailleux
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Poems for...
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“I think this is a wonderful project giving people something meaningful and personal to consider, in what can be an anxious place.”
The Rt Hon Tessa Jowell, Minister at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
“Diversity is an excellent theme, and particularly relevant to the challenges we all currently face in building a cohesive society..We would also like to order one set of your poster poems which we will use at appropriate FCO events..”
Sir Michael Jay, KCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
“I am delighted to be part of your creative and beautiful project.”
Mourid Barghouti, Palestinian poet |
| Poems for... is here |
| Code of Conduct for ward rounds |
“The Department of Health welcome[s] such initiatives as the Code of Professional Conduct for Ward Rounds and Similar Meetings. [This] is an example of good practice it would want to support…”
Julie Nichols,
NIMHE
The Ward Round Code is here |
User involvement in staff recrutiment
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Hyphen-21's model of a separate user panel “is an example of notable practice..worthy of sharing..across the NHS.”
Report by the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI)
August 2002
Consultation with the Users is here |
| Comments on Hyphen-21 |
“We feel that Hyphen-21 is doing some very important work designed to connect people to people, and people to community - their work on a code of good practice for ward rounds and their "Poems for the Waiting Room" project are particularly potent examples.”
Consumer Consultancy (Brighton)
“ I initially accessed your site as I was interested in your Poems for the Waiting Room project. However I am now really impressed by the other projects you have set up. My colleagues have also looked at your website and enjoyed the content too… We provide support and advice to drug users and their families. This involves needle exchange, counselling, access to funding for rehab, etc..I would like to express my support for your charity.”
Sheena MacKenzie,
Turning Point Worcester Druglink |
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