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Verbatim Poems with NHS Nurses

Across 2022 and 2023, writer Dr Kim Wiltshire (Edge Hill University) was awarded a British Academy Innovation Fellowship to work with award winning arts and health organisation Lime Arts, based at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) to explore embedding the arts further into NHS settings. Part of her work involved creating what she is terming 'verbatim poems'. For this, Kim worked with renowned musician, composer and sound artist Caro C (@carocsound) and together they interviewed nurses, took the recordings and created 4-5 minute sound pieces. This blog showcases both the written poems and the sound versions, which have been used across MFT for District Nurse recruitment, as well as being used in the 2023 Liverpool Being Human Festival Be My Guest, where the tracks were used by Fusion Dance to create immersive theatre experiences. You can also listen to the podcast ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fy7702 ) Please keep an eye for more posts as we work with more ...
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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...
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Home from Home Film

During 2023 and 2024, Kim Wiltshire worked with MFT's Local Care Organisations in three intermediate care units (Buccleuch Lodge, Delamere House and Crumpsall Vale) and one Complex Care Unit (Dermot Murphy Close) on the Home from Home project. Poetry workshops were run across the units with poets Zayneb Allak, Helen Harrison and Rebecca Hurst, and we made a short film, by Tim Brunsden, about how the project was run. You can view the film here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gSd2-uoHD8k
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