Quantum Poetics - unorthodox poetry with some laughs

As part of Dumfries & Galloway Wild Science Family MAYHEM! Day, I've been asked to provide a means of finding the poetry in science.

I've enjoyed myself and invented Quantum Poetics (well I borrowed the title) - two fun-seeking and exploratory short workshops aimed at guiding scientists to the poetry that lurks in pendulums, and poets to the thrills to be had from theoretical physics. But no doctorates are required – just curiosity and a sense of adventure!

I'll be there to help participants find their way into making a short poem inspired by science, using appropriately ‘MAYHEM! Day’ unorthodox and experimental techniques. Expect both laughter and some deadly serious creativity.

The workshops are at: 11am – 12 noon and 1.30pm – 2.30pm. Free entry (age 14 to 104) but please book (rebecca.crawford@glasgow.ac.uk ) as places on the workshops will be limited.

Dumfries & Galloway Wild Science Family MAYHEM! Day takes place in theRutherford McCowan Building, The Crichton Campus, Bankend Road, Dumfries DG1 4ZL

As promised, this is a nanoBOOK™

Here we are, a nanoBOOK™ we made earlier.  Credit to my younger son for idea and artwork.  To join the Science Fiction in a Flash workshop for children aged from about 9 years upwards (but younger if they are keen writers), book places on 07504 649 150. 

Science Fiction in a Flash, where you get to make your own nanoBOOK™, is part of Wild Science Family Mayhem! Day at the Rutherford McCowan Building, Crichton Campus, Dumfries.  The workshop is from 10.30-12 noon.