Imagine that you are visiting a restaurant in an unfamiliar city. You are seated and then presented with a menu in a foreign language. The restaurant’s menu does not have any pictures, moment, that you are new to a neighborhood. You visit a local restaurant; are seated and you do Continue Reading
Welcome back to our blog series “Have You Watched a Good Book Lately?” The series’ intention is to track a number of books’ progression from the printed page to the silver screen and assess how well or how badly the filmmakers accomplished each of the adaptations. Today we’re going to Continue Reading
Do you wonder where words and sayings originated? Well, wonder no more as the extremely well read and talented Kelly Knox investigates this very thing for us all. This time round, it’s the word ‘Panic’ In a third study I explored the mythopathology revolving around the figure of Pan and Continue Reading
It’s been nearly two weeks since the PoetsIN Schools Stress Ball and we’re still trying to get our heads around everything after being blown away by the success of it all. What a night! What a ball! People arrived in their tuxedoes and evening gowns, ate, laughed, danced and drank Continue Reading
It’s our Birthday! We’re two years old. How on earth did that happen? Another year of being a formally established as a charity, and BOY has it been a year of change and growth – so once again we thought we’d share some of amazing things we’ve achieved in those Continue Reading
Who are you and what do you do? Hi I am Sam, a mum of two beautiful girls and a home school educator and carer. I spend my days looking after my eldest daughter at home and spend 95% of my time thinking how I can become a successful person Continue Reading
This blog is written by a PoetsIN Ambassador. This is written from their perspective. Man up, man! We talk about it all the time here at PoetsIN. The stigma of being “a man” as the eyes of the surrounding world see it. We remind people that suicide among males is Continue Reading
Πάσχω/ πάθος (Paskho: ‘to suffer’/ Pathos: ‘that which happens to a person) Pathetic: (adjective) “From Middle French pathétique, from Latin patheticus, from Ancient Greek παθητικός (pathētikós, “subject to feeling, capable of feeling, impassioned”), from παθητός (pathētós, “one who has suffered, subject to suffering”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to suffer”)”[i]. Words…are personal Continue Reading
PoetsIN is all about words. Whether they are written or spoken, they are fundamental to everything we do; empowering people who are struggling with their mental health through workshops and a safe community. We use terminology and phrases about mental health day in and day out – but what of Continue Reading
Everyone has a story to tell; each one of us a writer of poetry – some, without even realising. That stream of consciousness that runs in our veins? It’s poetry waiting to be written. We believe in the power of words, and that power is what urged us set up Continue Reading
