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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2015
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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, 2015
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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, 2013
- 2 min
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, 2013
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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, 2013
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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, 2013
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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, 2013
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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, 2013
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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, 2013
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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, 2013
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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, 2013
- 3 min
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, 2013
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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, 2013
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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, 2013
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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, 2013
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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, 2013
- 2 min
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, 2013
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‘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, 2013
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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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