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Looking back
- FAREWELL
- National Poetry Day August 21
- August Art at Mercy – Pauline Bellamy
- Poems in the Waiting Room Art wall at Mercy Hospital
- Dear Key Workers
- Autumn 2020
- 2020 Poetry Competition Results
- PitWR 2020 poetry competition
- Pocket Poetry NZ
- Spring 2019
- National Poetry Day, August 23
- PoARTry at Mercy
- Another National Poetry Day event
- Looking ahead – National Poetry Day August 23
- Winter 2019
Category Archives: Poetry
National Poetry Day, August 23
AND we are celebrating. Every patient at Mercy Hospital will receive one of 9 poARTry postcards and a Poems in the Waiting Room leaflet with their lunchtime meal. AND Every Southern DHB patient will receive a sheet of poetry on … Continue reading
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Tagged haiku, Mercy Hospital, National Poetry Day 2019, PoARTry cards, Southern DHB
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Another National Poetry Day event
We’re also celebrating National Poetry Day on August 23 by providing all patients at Dunedin’s Mercy Hospital, with a poetry postcard on their lunch time meal tray. We selected 10 poems, offered them to 10 artists and their response to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Reid, Jenny Powell, Mercy Hospital, National Poetry Day 2019, Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ)
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Looking ahead – National Poetry Day August 23
We’re celebrating National Poetry Day on August 23 by teaming up with Southern DHB to provide poetry cards on the lunch time meal trays for all inpatients. Just because you’re not out and about doesn’t mean you should miss out … Continue reading
Winter 2019
The winter poetry cards have been posted all around New Zealand today. Look out for this latest card in your local medical waiting room, hospice, or rest home. They’re also available for prison inmates. Braille copies can be found at … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Small, Eric Dodson, Jilly O'Brien, Lynn Davidson, Mercy Healthcare, Michaela Keeble, Richard Mays, Tui Bevan
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2019 Poetry Competition Results
Time to announce the winners of the 2019 Poems in the Waiting Room Poetry Competition The 2019 competition winners have all been notified, and I’ve emailed everyone, who provided me with an email address, to let them know the results are out. … Continue reading
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Tagged Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ), Poems in the Waiting Room Competition
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Welcome to Autumn
Welcome to the 2019 Autumn Poems in the Waiting Room poetry card. Mercy Healthcare has been extremely supportive and has offered to sponsor our poetry cards for the next four seasons. We’re printing 8400 cards and delivering them all over … Continue reading
The 2019 competition has closed
Now the competition has closed I can tell you we received 389 poems from 202 poets -a record number of entries. After Diane Brown agreed to judge our competition she heard she had been awarded a residency at the Michael … Continue reading
Summer 2018
Our summer card has been out a month now so a very belated welcome to it. If anyone in NZ would like copies of the summer card please let me know, I’ve got plenty to spare. The featured December poets … Continue reading
Our 2019 Poetry Competition
The PitWR trustees would like to thank Otago University Press and Otago University Bookshop for their long-term support of our annual poetry competition. We welcome Karen McDonnell to our sponsorship team. Karen owns The Wardrobe in South Dunedin. Earlier in the year Karen opened The Wardrobe for two … Continue reading
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