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Poet in Residence

A Poetry Workshop for a Science Festival

On Saturday I travelled up to Scotland to be Poet in Residence for the day for Dumfries & Galloway Science Festival.  This year their theme was a celebration of the work of James Clerk Maxwell, mathematical physicist and versatile polymath, who observed for the first time that electrical fields and magnetic fields can couple together to form electromagnetic waves.                 … Continue reading A Poetry Workshop for a Science Festival

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Poet in Residence

‘I tickled his face/ he bumped me on the nose’: how to feed a bottle lamb

Originally posted on Poet on the Farm :
Here’s the Poetry Fence, after I’d added another ten poems sent to me over the weekend.  It does look rather beautiful. Then I followed Rob, the bailiff, on his rounds, and learned how the brick farmyard at Acton Scott was built purposely in the late 18th century as a model farm.  I waved a wooden flail to appreciate,… Continue reading ‘I tickled his face/ he bumped me on the nose’: how to feed a bottle lamb

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