This article from the BBC on March 31st about A scheme to promote the healing powers of poetry has found its way into thousands of GPs' surgeries is interesting. I happened to be at the dentist today for a checkup and while waiting, I spotted one of the leaflets, Poems in the Waiting Room. It contained eight short poems. I also read about the scheme on their website: Poems in the Waiting Room and was particularly interested to read about their PitWR Submission Guidelines:
Short poems (20/30 lines) are preferred to long to allow scope and variety within a collection. Submissions by email are particularly welcome or by Royal Mail to the POBox address. If sending by email, it is best to copy and paste the text into the message body. High fire walls usually wipe out attachments mistaking poetry for viruses.
The Arts Council funding allows for a royalty of #30 to be paid for each poem published.
As a token of appreciation to poets making submissions, each quarter a draw is held with a prize of a subscription to The Rialto, a premier poetry magazine
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