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29/01/09

"Poems For..." website attracts world-wide interest

Rogan Wolf, the project worker for "Poems For...", 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 the report emphasise the high proportion of UK schools interested in this project, followed by public libraries. The main reason for the interest in nearly all cases is the fact that large numbers of the poems are bilingual, "in celebration of diversity."

 

But also the report reveals that this project is now of international interest, doubtless for the same reason - that the poems celebrate diversity. For example, during one week-end in the Autumn of 2008, Rogan was notified of two registrations/downloads : on the Saturday, someone living in Las Vegas, the United States, downloaded the poems "for use in a public library" ; on the Sunday, someone living in Doha, capital of Qatar, downloaded the poems "for use in a school."

 




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Poems for...
“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
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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