Category: Arts blog

  • Where science and literature can clash

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    “Dear Hilda R., I`m sorry but I just can`t stand biographical novels. For the historian, they are a pollution, plain and simple. So I do not see I can be of any help to you. Sincerely, —-”   I received the above email from a Freud expert when I approached him for help with my research…

  • Nature’s Verse

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    John Holmes will be launching the paperback of his book Darwin’s Bards with a reading and discussion of poems on evolution from across the last two centuries at the Natural History Museum in London on Monday 11th November at 2.30. For more details, click here.

  • Science Museum poetry reading

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    A group of poets will be reading at the Science Museum in London on Wednesday 30th October from 7.30 in the evening. Join Simon Barraclough, Lorraine Mariner, Mick Delap, Sarah Westcott, Richard Barnett, Dominic McLoughlin, Malene Engelund, and Kelley Swain to explore space and science through verse. For more details, click here.

  • Musicolepsy

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    Musicolepsy – new poetry collection In case members of the BSLS were interested, I thought I’d let you know about this: my poetry collection, Musicolepsy, from which I read excerpts at the recent BSLS Conference 2013 in Cardiff, has now been published by Shoestring Press in Nottingham. The book features poems on cosmological, neurological and…

  • New SF poetry anthology

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    Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems from the UK Edited by Russell Jones   Blasting into the future, across alien worlds and distant galaxies, fantastic technologies and potential threats to humanity, Where Rockets Burn Through brings science fiction and poetry together in one explosive, genre-busting collection. Discover an array of poems by more…

  • A Cathedral to Nature

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    John Holmes will be giving a talk on the Natural History Museum in London as a work of art and architecture at 2.30 on Monday 24th June as part of the Museum’s Nature Live series. The talk will be being streamed live from the Museum’s website. To tune in and find out about how the…

  • Poetry and pathology

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    Kelley Swain, poet and one-time BSLS Secretary, has recently hosted a celebration of the possibilities of poetry and pathology at the Gordon Museum of Pathology at King’s College London. A selection of poems from Kelley’s new work Opera di Cera, a verse drama inspired by the pathological models at the Museo La Specola in Florence, have…

  • From Microscopes to Cloud Cameras: the Poetry of Science

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    In October, I teamed up with the poet Lesley Saunders at a poetry event at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. Lesley read from her new book of poems, Cloud Camera (Two Rivers Press), while I read a selection of poems by modern poets on the science of life. A podcast of the two talks…

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