{"id":829,"date":"2011-08-12T11:02:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T00:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2011-08-22T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T00:48:35","slug":"science-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Science and Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-833\" title=\"nasa_image_picture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nasa_image_picture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"nasa_image_picture\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nasa_image_picture-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nasa_image_picture-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nasa_image_picture.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I once wrote this <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:wgtqnO5qI5MJ:www.cordite.org.au\/reviews\/rob-walker-reviews-tony-page+tony+page+rob+walker&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=au&amp;client=safari&amp;source=www.google.com.au\">review<\/a> in Cordite on Tony Page\u2019s <em>Gateway to the Sphinx<\/em> in which I explored the connections between Science and Poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Many others more learned and eloquent than me have also written of the nexus between Science and The Arts. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/riaus.org.au\/articles\/are-science-and-poetry-really-that-different\/\">article<\/a> by Freya Dougan-Whaite,<\/p>\n<p>or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaus.org.au\/people\/erica-jolly\/\">book<\/a> Challenging the Divide: Approaches to Science and Poetry (Lythrum Press) by Erica Jolly. Last Tuesday I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/riaus.org.au\/programs-and-events\/on-friendly-street\/\">RiAus on Friendly Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We had all kinds of work on the science theme from Mike Hopkins, Simon Hanson, David Harris, Alison Flett, Steve Brock, Louise McKenna, Kahil Jureidini, Maggie Emmett, Stephen Lawrence, Erica Jolly, Ian Gibbins, John Rice, Janine Baker, performance poet Royce. My apologies to the several others I can\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n<p>I debuted my homage to Kahil Jureidini entitled <em>String Theory Unstrung (A Faith of Particles.)<\/em><br \/>\nThanks to all who came and presented (including the ones I\u2019ve forgotten!) and thanks to the Royal Institution of Australia for continuing to encourage the Science\/Poetry connection.<\/p>\n<p>(Image courtesy of NASA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once wrote this review in Cordite on Tony Page\u2019s Gateway to the Sphinx in which I explored the connections between Science and Poetry. Many others more learned and eloquent than me have also written of the nexus between Science &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=829\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}