Home From Home Verbatim Poem
During 2023 and 2024, Kim secured funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with MFT's Local Care Organisation, in particular with three Intermediate Care Units - Buccleuch Lodge, Crumpsall Vale and Delamere House, and a complex care unit at Dermot Murphy Close. The project explored the lived experience of the staff who work in and patients who live in these units - some for a short period of time before they can get back home, some for the rest of their lives. The project outcomes included a poetry booklet, an installation, a film and a staff led verbatim poem. The verbatim poem saw writer Kim and musician Caro C work with 20 staff members across the four units and is called 'There Nowhere (Quite Like Home)' There’s Nowhere (Quite Like Home) Kim Wiltshire and Caro C There’s no place like home, Is there? Friends, family, comfort. You can do what you want, When you want. Home is where you rest your head, It can be one room, It can be