I have been spending an interesting day researching and inventing some
poet&geek activities for my date at the
Edinburgh International Science Festival next week.
Around about lunch time, I will be taking a quick look at poetry riddles, QR code poetry and how (and indeed whether) we can make poems using computers at the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF. I am on the Grand Gallery stage for this pop-up event which is at 1pm and is free. So come and join in - children especially welcome.
Later on in the day I will be reading and talking about how science inspires my poetry at
Summerhall. Being
p&g, this will include otters, dye chemistry & blood - well certainly - circulation, how to get inside the Megget Dam without being James Bond and ecopoetry. All this and fabulous writers 2014 Manchester Fiction Prize winner
Martin MacInnes and
Lucy Ribchester (Simon & Schuster) too. This is a
Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award winner event in collaboration with
#EdSciFest.
This event is ticketed £8 and £6 concessions and starts at 8pm and takes place, appropriately enough, in the
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall,
Summerhall Place, Edinburgh EH9 1PL. You can find more details and buy tickets here
http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/the-science-of-storytelling.
