All kinds of bright - The OUH Poem

A poem created by OUH Poet, Beth Calverley, in collaboration with staff working at the Trust.

Developed by artlink, the Trust’s arts programme, funded by Oxford Hospitals Charity.

Beth Calverley has been co-creating poems with staff teams across OUH since January 2021.

In January 2022, she brought her Poetry Machine onto hospital sites to write poems with staff individually. She also welcomed contributions via an online form and talked to staff online. This poem has been inspired by all these conversations.

Contributors were given opportunities to feed back and make changes.

Beth would like to thank...

Collaborating teams:

Microbiology, CTCCU, Tissue Viability, Play Specialists, Dementia Leads, Horton F Ward, NOC Ward E, Vaccination Team, Day Treatment Unit, Rainbow Shielders...

...and all staff who have read lines from the poem in this video:

Terry Roberts | Chief People Officer

Geraldine Mazise | Trainee Nursing Associate, AGM, JR

Bill Frizzell | Project Officer, Capital Programmes

Marcus Morgan | Biomedical Scientist, Microbiology

Jane Edwards | Senior Specialist Nurse Practitioner, Tissue Viability

Uma Avaidya | Medical Student

Michael Robinson | Porter, G4S, Churchill Hospital

Rainer Buhler | Divisional Director of Operations, Surgery, Women’s and Oncology

Emma Walduck, Anaesthetic Sister, NOC Theatres

Lawrence Eadle | Equipment Lead, NOC Theatres

Sarah Cox | Domestic Team, G4S, NOC

Yolanda Jacob | Operations Manager, Horton General Hospital

Callum McDowell | Restaurant Manager, Belota Restaurant, Horton General Hospital

Adam Newberry | Therapy Assistant, Horton General Hospital

Michele Beesley | Therapy Assistant, Horton General Hospital

Lucy O’Connor | Delivery Suite Coordinator, JR

Edward Gerring-Brown | Trauma/ED Advance Practice Physiotherapist, JR

Olivia Freeman | Sister, Robin’s Ward, Children’s Hospital, JR