WELCOME TO LUPAS

Welcome to the Liverpool University Centre for Poetry and Science (LUPAS).

Liverpool University Centre for Poetry and Science is a forum to facilitate discussion about the relationship between those two traditionally opposed subjects, poetry and science. The site will provide new poetry, commentary, newly commissioned essays and interviews with leading poets and scientists.  In addition, poets and scientists at the University of Liverpool and the University of Cardiff, have agreed to take part in a series of discussions with each other, and to document their thoughts in an online diary.

This month we feature an essay and poem by Michael Murphy, who was Writer in Residence at the National Wildflower Centre, Liverpool,  in 2005. We will also be publishing a new interview with poet Lavinia Greenlaw, as well as work by the poet and critic Tim Kendall. Alison Mark will explore the use of science in the poetry of Veronica Forrest-Thomson, and Andrew Michael Roberts will review Robert Crawford's recently edited book of essays 'Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science'.