Centre for Poetry and Science
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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.
Featured poem
PLUTONIUM by Mario Petrucci
"The fact that I'm an ecologist, as well as a ‘lapsed physicist', might explain why I'm forever delving into the interfaces between poetry and other disciplines."
Essays and interviews
Michael Murphy
In a new essay this month, poet Michael Murphy discusses his residency at the National Wildflower Centre.
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Coming soon
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'.
