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TX: 07.01.09 - John Killick's Dementia Poem - All Singing

PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON
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ROBINSON
When we first featured the work of the poet and writer John Killick on this programme we had a huge and very positive response. A writer in residence at hospitals, hospices and nursing homes he's created poetry from the words of people with dementia. John Killick has just published his third collection of these poems, it's called Dementia Diary and we're featuring them all this week.

KILLICK
All Singing

To me singing is most important
When I was a child my mother sang to me
When I saw her come into the house
I would run and jump into her lap
In the kitchen I asked her: "Are you really singing?"
And she'd say: "Yes darling. And it's all for you."

My father would hum to my mother
He used to swing it like
He would stand with his arms around her
And I used to love that
He and she were very devoted
Sometimes it seemed as if they could draw everything to themselves

When they used to sing
It was sort of quiet
It didn't build up to anything
They were like Darby and Joan
They were special
They were one

ROBINSON
And there's more about John Killick and his work and a chance to hear all of this week's poems on our website.


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