The Poetry Project is coming to Centrale and the Whitgift shopping centres this week, to help raise awareness of tomorrow’s World Mental Health Day.

One of James McInerney’s poems on display in Centrale for World Mental Health Day

The two shopping centres will be displaying specially commissioned poems created by poet James McInerney to help spread positivity and prompt a wider conversation around mental health awareness.

McInerney’s poems have been used, poster-sized, on the London Underground, in Covent Garden, Wembley and also in the United States and Australia.

Now they are coming to Croydon. McInerney said today, “I love the idea of bringing positivity to the people of Croydon.

“World Mental Health day is incredibly important and should not to be overlooked. Displaying my poetry in the popular shopping centre of Centrale and Whitgift will hopefully spread the important message of positivity a little further in the lead up to October 10.”

David Ordman, Centrale’s general manager, said, “We’re proud to support World Mental Health Day here at Centrale and Whitgift. Hopefully in displaying these wonderful poems we will be able to spread the message of hope and optimism ahead of the day.”

The Poetry Project will be on display from October 10 to 13.

• Inside Croydon has been digging out the news stories that those in power don’t want you to know about since 2010. Help us continue to do that, and for £5 per month get access to our Under The Flyover podcast, plus benefit from money-off offers and priority booking for special events. Click here to find out more

• Inside Croydon Events: click here for details of hundreds of events in and around Croydon

• Inside Croydon is a member of the Independent Community News Network
• Inside Croydon works together with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and BBC London News
• Inside Croydon named Journalist of the Year at 2018 Anna Kennedy Online Autism Heroes Awards
• ROTTEN BOROUGH AWARDS: For two consecutive years, 2017 and 2018, Inside Croydon has been the source for two award-winning nominations in Private Eye magazine’s annual celebration of civic cock-ups
  
• In 2018, Inside Croydon had 1.6million pages viewed by more than half a million unique visitors
• If you have a news story about life in or around Croydon, or what to publicise your residents’ association or business, or if you have a local event to promote, please email us with full details at inside.croydon@btinternet.com