Discourses
Subtitle: poems for the Royal Institution
By: edited by Jo Shapcott
Contributors: Donaghy, Michael; Greenlaw, Lavinia; Harsent, David; Hartley Williams, John; Herbert, W. N.; Kinsella, John; Padel, Ruth; Royal Institution of Great Britain
Publisher: Royal Institution of Great Britain
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780903496070
Subjects: Research
Description: The lectures at London's Royal Institution are given by experts on subjects of their own choosing, mostly science or technology. This collection of poems is the result of inviting nine poets to attend one of a selection of evening discourses given by nine leading contemporary scientists and use their art to reveal their reactions to it. Each poem is preceded by a summary of the lecture that inspired it. For example, in response to Professor Ferguson"s lecture on "Scars, Sex and Alligators: unexpected discoveries in biomedical research and their commercial exploitation," Ruth Padel offers a six part poem entitled "Sex, Scars and Alligators."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Discourses / Jo Shapcott; title: From metals with a memory to brilliant light-emitting solids / David Harsent; title: Sex, scars and alligators / Ruth Padel; title: Bright Earth / Lavinia Greenlaw; title: The Moko / Michael Donaghy; title: Dan Dare at the Cosmos Ballroom / John Hartley Williams; title: Red, yellow / Matthew Sweeney; title: Afterself / W.N. Herbert; title: Transgenic pig ode / John Kinsella.; title: Original discourses: The electric body / Frances Ashcroft; title: From metals with a memory to brilliant light-emitting solids: designing new materials for the twenty-first century / Colin Humphreys; title: Scars, sex and alligators / Mark Ferguson; title: Bright Earth: the invention of colour / Philip Ball; title: Environmental prediction and turbulence / Julian Hunt; title: Order out of chaos: the cryptic self-assembly of matter / Tom Mcleish; title: Is artificial life possible? / Margaret A. Boden; title: Bioethics / Sheila McLean.