Links: Presentation techniques & poster design.Communicating with the disbelivers, resource page.The Interpretation of Nature and The Psycheīy Carl Gustav Jung & Wolfgang Ernst Pauli.Throw stones into the pool and note well the ripples and dapples.Connect yourself to the soul of the matter.P lease give three pieces of advice to aspiring science poets! A few high school teachers in the USA told me they have been using my work to engage students who might otherwise not be interested in science, and I know that the University of Texas has my poem about bee vision on their Biology course reading list. The soul got ripped out of science during WWII, and It’s time to put it back in again. Regarding your own writing, what do you consider your most important work?Īs I may get knocked out at any time by a random jet falling from the sky, I will have to say ’30 Days’, my last anthology.Īpart from the artistic dimension, do you think science poetry can be useful? In what way? Le Gui n, John Milton, Edward Storey, e e cummings In the end I had no choice but to go with it. But poetry had been leaking out spontaneously since I was eight, no matter how hard I tried to suppress it. I didn’t want to do anything of the sort, so I pursued biology instead.

My grandfather was a novelist and my father a playwright. Hi Joanna, and congrats to the Jury’s Grand Prize! Please tell us about your background and how you became interested in poetry. Last time Crastina had a Science & Poetry theme, Joanna wrote a column. Page from Joanna’s book ”30 Days” – a collection of illustrated poems about science, and nature.

30 Days by Joanna Tilsley