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Where to Begin – Poetry Installation at Nipissing University

There is so much I could say: Poems from the Rare Dementia Support Research Project

A poetry installation exploring what it is like to live with a rarer dementia was open to the public from December 5, 2022 to January 31, 2023 at Nipissing University. As part of the ESRC/NIHR (UK) funded Rare Dementia Support Impact Study people living with a rarer dementia participated in research poetry facilitated by poets Martha Gould in North Bay and Lawrence Wilson in Rye (UK). The installation features poems from the book There is So Much I Could Say (2022).  

Nipissing University

Room 101 NUSU Building, 221 College Drive, North Bay, Ontario

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