The Social Sessions 03: Base Pairs and Couplets
Event: Public eventDate: 13 Jan 2010 00:00
Start date: 13 Jan 2010 17:30
End date: 13 Jan 2010 19:30
Speaker(s):
Genomics Forum Writer in Residence and Human Genre Project editor Ken MacLeod chairs a panel of new and established poets who'll give us their readings and thoughts:
Ron Butlin, Edinburgh Makar, acclaimed poet, novelist, and short story writer
Brian McCabe, author of Zero (and much else)
Tracey S. Rosenberg, poet and literary scholar
Kelley Swain, author of Darwin's Microscope, writer in residence at the Whipple Museum
Ryan Van Winkle, poet, journalist, organiser of The Golden Hour, Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and Edinburgh City Libraries
Organised by: ESRC Genomics Forum in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library
Venue:
Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT
Hugh MacDiarmid spoke the languages of geology and chemistry, Edwin Morgan brought space exploration and science fiction into poetry, and Gillian Ferguson has inscribed the human genome in her Poems on the Book of Life. The Forum’s own Human Genre Project, a website of gene-inspired writing, has already received scores of contributions, most of them poetry. Is science more inspiring to poetry than to prose?
Further details:
This event is FREE, but as venue space is limited, please confirm your attendence to genomics.forum@ed.ac.uk
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