MY COMMUNITY
Tea, time and a side order of poetry Care home residents are enjoying poems especially written for them by poet, Charlotte Baldwin, who wanted to use her time as a way of giving back to the community.
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ypsy Rose Poetry and Brent Libraries developed a programme to give vulnerable customers the opportunity to experience poetry in their own homes, with funding from the Mayor of London’s Culture Seeds fund. Charlotte visits home library customers and care homes around the borough getting to know each resident and having a cup of tea and a chat before creating unique poems for each person. The experience gives residents the opportunity to reminisce about the past and
take away a memento of their life captured in a poem. Charlotte said, “This was a very rewarding project which could not have happened without the hard work and dedication of the Home Libraries team. It was a joy to learn more about the lives of people living in Brent and to see how moved some were to read the resulting poems. I will treasure their gratitude and hope they will treasure their poems.” For more information visit: www.brent.gov.uk/libraries YOUR BRENT | SPRING 2022
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