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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
Tag Archives: braille poetry booklets
Braille poetry booklets
We’ve been providing our seasonal poetry cards in a braille booklet format for the last seven years. This would not have been possible without assistance from various funding sources. The next four braille editions are possible due to the financial … Continue reading
Our 2014 poetry cards and braille booklets
2014 poetry cards and braille booklets I’ve already had several requests for some of our surplus summer cards. If anyone else would like some of these spare poetry cards either for themselves, friends, or to drop in to medical centres/rest … Continue reading
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Summer 2014 braille edition
Sincere thanks to the FOR EVERY ONE Charitable Foundation. Their sponsorship has covered the cost of transcribing and printing the Winter, Spring, Summer 2014 and Autumn 2015 editions of our braille poetry booklets.
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Behind the scenes
Áine Kelly-Costello is an Auckland Uni student, doing a double degree in Music and Spanish. Áine calls in to the Blind Foundation offices in Auckland once a week to proofread for them. Lyvie took these photos of Áine proofreading the winter braille … Continue reading
2014 winter braille edition
Look what’s going out in the mail tomorrow!! Immense gratitude to the For Everyone Charitable Foundation for sponsoring this braille edition of our poetry cards and the following three braille editions. You certainly live up to your name which means … Continue reading
For Everyone
Today I received the fantastic news that Poems in the Waiting Room is one of the charities lucky enough to receive sponsorship from the For Everyone Charitable Foundation. The Foundation, established in 2009 by Ali Williams, Dan Carter and Richie … Continue reading
Ready to go
To keep costs down we’ve limited the braille poetry booklets to 8 pages and this frequently means one or two poems, which are in the card edition, have to be omitted. Lyvie from the RNZFB contacted me last week and … Continue reading
Our summer braille edition
My friend Lyvie at the RNZFB emailed today to let me know the summer braille copies of Poems in the Waiting Room were posted out last Friday. She attached this picture of our latest edition. We’re very grateful to The … Continue reading
Poetry at your fingertips
The Poems in the Waiting Room Spring braille poetry booklet. Lyvie, from the RNZFB, sent me this photo today. Because of the cost of transcribing the poems we’ve had to halve the number we include in each braille edition. But … Continue reading
Getting a feel for braille
Yesterday in the mail I received a lovely postcard with a message for me in braille. I hunted out the DIY braille guide, which Lyvie from the RNZFB sent me when Poems in the Waiting Room produced its first braille … Continue reading
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