I keep forgetting to tell people about my latest publications. In case you’re interested, my essay ‘We Are Not Special: White Pages and Dark Matter’ (a sort of mash up of astronomy and poetry) is in the Corroding The Now anthology from Veer Books And I wrote an introduction to the fab poetry collection Mathematics […]
Here and there…
My work has been appearing here and there: my short story ‘Considering the Role of the Female’, based on the work of Margaret Bastock, the first geneticist to find evidence that a single gene can influence behaviour, is published in the wonderful sci-art magazine Tamarind my prose poem ‘more than one possible solution’ is in […]
Genomics Forum Poetry Competition
Last year, as part of my writer-in-residency activities, I ran a short story competition to encourage writers to be inspired by genetics and genomics. As a result we received some fantastic stories, and so this year I’m repeating the exercise – for poets. The theme of the competition is ‘improving the human’. How does an […]
More (un)certainty, or do I mean something else?
Following on from my last blog, the event on poetry and astronomy at Royal Observatory in Greenwich went very well. Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave a great talk and invited members of the audience to read aloud the poems on astronomy she had selected. These readings were fantastic; and I think helped the discussion with the […]
Dark matter – clear poetry
The Royal Observatory Greenwich is holding a public event on 10 November to discuss poems about astronomy. The astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the poet Kelley Swaine, and I will be speaking at it. There is a lot of poetry written about astronomy, and I find this surprising for a couple of reasons. First, because […]