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Seventeen new poems available - written in a workshop for Occupational Therapists who specialise in mental health work.

A collection for young people, by young people, is now ready for downloading.
Michael Rosen, ex-Children's Poet Laureate in the UK, has agreed that his commissioned poem about the NHS "These are the Hands" can join the "Poems for..." collection and be translated into different languages.
Poems for.. helps organise a major schools event in Rochester in celebration of diversity.
This Spring was the first anniversary of the "Poems for..." site and we did a breakdown of everyone from across the world who registered on it in order to download collections

The site launched in April 2008 by Andrew Motion (see "News" 22/04/08) is being well-used. Recent findings indicate a/ that the vast majority of people in UK who visited the site and downloaded the poems are school teachers; and b/ that the project is now delivering poems across the globe.

An evening which began with the sound of seven different languages in verse ended with the AGM of Hyphen-21, the charity which runs the Poems For...project.

Andrew Motion helped launch this new Poems for...website at the Nehru Centre in London on April 22nd
David Hart looks back eight years to when he commissioned 50 new poems, all on the subject of waiting.
Packs of "Poemsfor...one world" have been sent to UK embassies around the world.