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Looking back
- Winter 2017 – our 35th poetry card.
- The forecast for winter
- 2017 Poetry Competition Results
- Early April
- Autumn is upon us
- Completing the To Do List
- Happy Holidays
- Summer 2016
- 2017 Poetry competition
- AND it’s finished
- Stepsisters
- Our Spring poets
- Spring is drawing closer!
- Winter’s on the way
- Winter is approaching
Tag Archives: André Surridge
Summer 2016
Poems in the Waiting Room presents our Summer 2016 poetry card, full of superb writing. We have printed 7750 poetry cards for this, our 33rd, edition of Poems in the Waiting Room(NZ). Look out for this Summer blue poetry card in your nearest … Continue reading
Stepsisters
With some finishing touches to be added over the coming week, Sheryl McCammon and Ruth Arnison (aka the Stepsisters) are chuffed to present our first project in the series, Poems on Steps (POSTs), in Dunedin. The transformation of the Moray Place … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Poetry
Tagged André Surridge, Peter Christos, Resene, Taskforce Green, Tracey Paul
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Spring is on the way
The Spring cards set off from our house today and hopefully you’ll find some in a waiting room or rest home near you very soon. I collect poems over a long period of time so when I requested permission from a … Continue reading
Our autumn 2015 poets
As I set off for work this morning at 7.00 am there was a slight feeling of autumn in the air. And this made me realise I’m going to have to give up my current walking to work activity – learning poems. Soon … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged André Surridge, Catherine Bateson, Claire Orchard, Elena de Roo, Fiona Farrell, Jane Yeh, John Alcock, Riemke Ensing, Ron C. Moss, Roy Marshall, Sophie Hannah
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Here comes Summer
Many thanks to: The Lion Foundation for sponsoring this edition, all the poets for allowing me the loan of their work and, NZ Post for providing me with a bundle of free post envelopes in response to my application to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged André Surridge, Anne Powell, Bob Orr, Elizabeth Nannestad, Emma Neale, Jacob Polley, Lindsay Pope, Michele Amas, Nola Borrell, Rose Amy Fyleman
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Summer Preview
Three boxes of summer cards are sitting by my desk waiting to be unpacked and repackaged to send and deliver to rest homes and medical practices. Once again we’re covering the lower half of the South Island plus this time … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged André Surridge, Bub Bridger, Greeba Brydges-Jones, Jenny Powell, John Ansell, Mick Stringer, Mo Irvine, Richard Langston, Wendy Cope
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Looking forward to daffodils and daylight
Tonight I’m sitting at my desk surrounded by 2000 daffodil coloured poetry cards and a pile of envelopes! With less than three weeks until spring I’m bundling up cards to post to rest homes and medical centres in Southland, South … Continue reading
