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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 School

A Schoolday of Poetry and Staring at Things

Last week I enjoyed a wonderful day making poems with just over 80 young people at Sibford School in Oxfordshire.  An independent Quaker school, Sibford was so welcoming, and so supportive, that I came away exhilarated (before falling suddenly asleep on a sofa mid-evening…) A stripe with no explanation A splash of colour. A ride for many different creatures. A centre like gold. The place bees … Continue reading A Schoolday of Poetry and Staring at Things

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