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My work moves between creative non-fiction, poetry, and digital experiment, often collaboratively and through practice-led research.
Antarctica Books Graph Theory Life Writing Mathematics More-than-human p5.js Poetry Projective Geometry Story-making Swarm Twine Visualisation Writing
Tag: Poetry
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Mathematician Dr Siaw-Lynn Ng and I developed an idea for a poetic form based on projective geometry. In doing this we also explored the ‘what ifs’ in mathematics and poetry which spark the creative processes of poet and mathematician.
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Siaw-Lynn and I are working on another collaboration, Graph Theory for Poets.
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Rebecca Elson seems always in between. As an astronomer, she studied globular clusters, spherical collections of stars bound by gravity, which contain some of the most ancient stars in the galaxy. In photographs, globular clusters look like someone has popped the lid off a pot of silver glitter and upturned it onto black velvet.
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Life-Writing of Immeasurable Events (LIVE for short) was named after a line from a poem by the late Rebecca Elson, from her collection A Responsibility to Awe. Elson was an astronomer whose scientific research into dark matter took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable.
Katherine Collins 