12th May

Next time we'll continue our exploration of Robert Crawford's Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science with a focus on the following sections:

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, "Astronomy and Poetry" (pp. 125-140).
• John Burnside, "Steinar Undir Steinahlithium", with introduction by R. M. M. Crawford (pp. 107-109).

Please feel free to bring along any other contemporary poems you would like to discuss.

We meet as usual in the upstairs seminar room at Darwin College, from 7.30-9pm. All welcome!

Nineteenth-Century Epic - A Symposium

A symposium on the 'Nineteenth-Century Epic' will be held at Newham College, Cambridge, on Friday 2nd May, from 2-5pm, hosted by the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group. Further details are available on this poster. To register, please contact admin@victorians.group.cam.ac.uk.

28th April

Our term exploring science and poetry begins on 28th April, in the upstairs seminar room at Darwin College from 7.30-9pm.

We will start to look at Robert Crawford (ed.), Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science (OUP, 2006), particularly the following chapters. A copy of the book is available on reserve in the Whipple Library.

• Miroslav Holub, "Rampage, or Science in Poetry" (pp. 11-24).
• Robert Crawford, "Biology", with introduction by Rona R. Ramsay (pp. 69-71).

Please feel free to bring along other poems that you would like to discuss...

All are welcome!

Hapgood

The Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company and West Yorkshire Playhouse are putting on a production on Tom Stoppard's Hapgood: in Birmingham from 11-26 April 2008 and in Leeds from 1-24 May 2008.

Emily Ballou - The Darwin Poems

Australian poet Emily Ballou will read from her new collection, The Darwin Poems (a portrait of Charles Darwin) on April 16 2008 at 18.30 at The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, London. Please RSVP menzies.centre@kcl.ac.uk.

Beyond Measure - Conversations Across Art and Science

The new exhibition at Kettle's Yard, Beyond Measure: Conversations Across Art and Science, exploring the uses of geometry, runs until 1st June. Further details are available here.

BSLS book prize

Congratulations to former member of the Reading Group Ralph O'Connor on winning the first book prize of the British Society for Literature and Science for his The Earth on Show! The full announcement is available here.

Easter 2008

This term we will be exploring science and poetry.

In the first three meetings, we will look at Robert Crawford (ed.), Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science (OUP, 2006). A copy of the book is available on reserve in the Whipple Library. We will explore the whole book, but in particular the following:


28 April

• Miroslav Holub, "Rampage, or Science in Poetry" (pp. 11-24).
• Robert Crawford, "Biology", with introduction by Rona R. Ramsay (pp. 69-71).

12 May

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, "Astronomy and Poetry" (pp. 125-140).
• John Burnside, "Steinar Undir Steinahlithium", with introduction by R. M. M. Crawford (pp. 107-109).

26 May

• Kay Redfield Jamison, "Contemporary Psychology and Contemporary Poetry: Perspectives on Mood Disorders" (pp. 191-203).
• Paul Muldoon, "Once I looked into your eyes", with introduction by Warren S. Warren (pp. 167-169).

Please feel free to bring along other poems that you would like to discuss...


9 June

• The final meeting will be a creative writing workshop.
• Please bring along your own poems and writings! We hope to have a creative writing tutor present, to facilitate the discussion.

We meet on Mondays from 7.30 to 9pm in the upstairs seminar room of Darwin College. All are welcome!

Cultures of Climate Change - Poetry Event

The Cultures of Climate Change warmly invites you to its fourth and final event of Lent 2008

Melanie Challenger - The Boundless Main: On Poetry and Frost

Monday 10 March, 17:00 - 18:30
Main Seminar Room, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane

Melanie Challenger won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005, and her first collection, Galatea (Salt), was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She is the British Antarctic Survey Artist in Residence for International Polar Year 2007-8, and returned from three months in Antarctica in February. Melanie will read some of her work and speak about her experiences; discussion and a wine reception to follow.

For more information on all our events please visit http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/climatechange.html, or email Bradon Smith (btls2@cam.ac.uk) or Benjamin Morris (bam32@cam.ac.uk).

Next term - contemporary poetry and contemporary science

Dates for our meetings next term have been confirmed as Mondays 28th April, 12th and 26th May, and 9th June, from 7.30-9pm in the upstairs seminar room at Darwin College. We'll be reading selections from Robert Crawford (ed.) Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science (Oxford University Press, 2006).