Emma Neale reports on the Poems in the Waiting Room competition, which she judged this year.
"Poems in the Waiting Room is a fantastic cause. It
seems to me that a surgery, hospice, hospital or prison visiting room that
stocks these pamphlets is acknowledging the intimate relationship between
empathy, psychological health, and physical health: it is speaking to the whole
person, providing holistic care, as the poems feed in to the intellectual and
emotional facets of experience.
This
enterprise is one arts project that has a directly beneficial impact on our
whole community. The readership crosses over all socioeconomic classes and
ages: from the embattled solo parent reading the leaflet to a sick child, to
the elderly arthritis patient; from the clinically depressed teenager to the
worried yet well business executive."
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