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Jul 19, 20171 min read
Living On Mars
Hopefully living on Mars wouldn’t be much like The Expanse… Next week, I’ll be compering an event as part of at-Bristol’s ‘Festival of...
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Feb 19, 20161 min read
Hands
A poem of mine, ‘Hands’, has just gone up on Folia Magazine online – you can read it here. The poem came out of a workshop a couple of...
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Apr 8, 20151 min read
Poetry School Microcommission: First Report
Shaun’s response to a government report on Innovation… There’s a quick update on The Poetry School Microcommission project, ‘Chainmail’,...
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Feb 5, 20151 min read
The Poetry School Microcommission: Chainmail
We got one of the Lo! and Behold Microcommissions from The Poetry School! Mine was one of five projects fortunate enough to receive a...
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Jun 11, 20132 min read
The Rules of Twister or, Meaning of Whirl
One of the recent, unusual, French funnels. Recently, there have been tornadoes in both the USA and in France (!), where they are much...
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Apr 29, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 29: Excerpts from a Report on the New Poem Aquarium
An empty aquarium – shall we fill it with poems? Shall we? So yes, it being the end of NaPoWriMo, I’m going quite deranged and using...
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Apr 23, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 23: A Triolet for Entropy
The Universe loves things to get more disordered. (So most of us fit right in – We Are Stardust!) I’m running on a slightly altered...
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Apr 12, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 10: Un-love Poem for Call-Centre Conversations
The battery-farming of conversation, in the form of a call centre. Day 10’s prompt was to write a poem of un-love; not a malediction, so...
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Mar 28, 20131 min read
Pesticide makes bees forget the scent for food, new study finds
http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/pesticide-bees-scent-food-neocotinoid Just after my piece about how bees see and smell –...
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Mar 27, 20131 min read
The Proper Science Behind “The Angry Birds”
How lovely: a fellow science and poetry blogger (but one who writes about the science behind poetry, rather than poetry based on science)...
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Mar 27, 20131 min read
Falcons ‘rapidly evolved hunter skill’
Falcons ‘rapidly evolved hunter skill’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21885659 I love raptors – wrote a poem last year about meeting a...
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Mar 15, 20131 min read
Vermin On The Rise
A couple of stories recently linked very directly to my Vermin Cycle of poems. The first is the great news that the EU has now banned all...
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Mar 12, 20133 min read
Advice for the Artist When Depicting a Lady-Scientist or, Unbecoming
Ada King, Countess of Lovelace – AKA Proto-Computer Queen So Friday was International Women’s Day – and Sunday Mother’s Day. Hurrah for...
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Mar 3, 20133 min read
Very Extremely Very
An artist’s impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope, to be built high up in the Andes – placed next to the London Eye, for...
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Feb 26, 20133 min read
Can You Take a Moment to Rate This Whale? or, The Appening
A Whale App? But not one like the one in my poem-story, I hope. It appears I’m once again interested in all things animal (as opposed to...
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Feb 22, 20134 min read
Canteenosaurus-Rex or, The Numbering of Teeth
A chomping Tyrranosauridae Running a little behind after being struck down with a lurgy last week, but here is my latest sci-po – no...
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Feb 5, 20131 min read
The science of poetry, the poetry of science
The science of poetry, the poetry of science I found this article by Ruth Padel a few days ago and just got around to reading it. If...
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Feb 4, 20132 min read
The Angry Birds
Part of an excellent comic strip on cat killers from: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill – go on their website and buy their...
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Jan 21, 20132 min read
‘As Above, So Below’ or, ‘Capital E. Control A. Control C. Control V.’
Galaxies or neurons? The Universe is, or is like, a Giant Brain. Or the Brain is, or is like, a Little Universe. Same diff. Last week, I...
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Jan 14, 20132 min read
Crinkly Fingers or, A Lonely Fisherman Sings to the Catch
The Loneliness of a (Prune-Fingered) Trawler Fisherman This morning, I read a lovely news story by Jonathan Amos about research on...
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