writer in residence posts
mostly pathology, neuroscience, biomedical science, & poetry
THIS FATAL SUBJECT: Gordon Pathology Museum, London & Kings College London Anatomy Dept under aegis of Professor Susan Standring, Editor of Gray's Anatomy. Funded by a £30,000 Wellcome Trust Arts Award.(project created by me with artist Susan Aldworth, also working with sculptor Eleanor Crook)
Access to dissections, human specimens, working with medical students, supported by world-class scientists, and culminating in a multi-media exhibition at the Gordon, then at The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London, which was a Guardian Guide Pick of the Week, featuring my AV poem APOPTOSIS/CELL SUICIDE and poems from ALL THAT LIVES. This residency led directly to working with pathologists/neuroscientists at Newcastle University, leading to a residency at:
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University (funded by Changing Age) for 18 months, working on dementia, the brain, ageing, also working with Institute of Neuroscience, both residencies & others culminating in my award-winning poetry book ALL THAT LIVES and my installation SLICING THE BRAIN for the Coming of Age exhibition with Renoir, Degas, Henry Moore & various contemporary visual artists. Working closely with Professor Elaine Perry to write scientific paper on Near Death Experiences for NEUROQUANTOLOGY and chapter of consciousness book.
Evolving Words (Wellcome Trust-funded national project for Darwin 200): mentoring and performing with groups of young writers nationwide, working with genetics and evolutionary scientists at Cambridge and Newcastle's Centre for Life.
Leeds Hospitals for TONIC (cancer & long-stay patients) via Char March: writing for and with patients, including those with dementia. Work displayed in hospitals.
Ilkley Literature Festival Poet in Residence.
El Gouna: month's residency at a 5* Hotel, Red Sea, Egypt, international residency to finish my collection ALL THAT LIVES.
Dilston Physic Garden, Northumberland. Creating third quantum haiku: running workshops etc. Owned by neuropathologists Elaine and Robert Perry. Ongoing residency. Currently co-authoring a major book on physic gardens with Elaine and her botanist daughter Dr Nicolette Perry for Green Books.
Access to dissections, human specimens, working with medical students, supported by world-class scientists, and culminating in a multi-media exhibition at the Gordon, then at The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London, which was a Guardian Guide Pick of the Week, featuring my AV poem APOPTOSIS/CELL SUICIDE and poems from ALL THAT LIVES. This residency led directly to working with pathologists/neuroscientists at Newcastle University, leading to a residency at:
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University (funded by Changing Age) for 18 months, working on dementia, the brain, ageing, also working with Institute of Neuroscience, both residencies & others culminating in my award-winning poetry book ALL THAT LIVES and my installation SLICING THE BRAIN for the Coming of Age exhibition with Renoir, Degas, Henry Moore & various contemporary visual artists. Working closely with Professor Elaine Perry to write scientific paper on Near Death Experiences for NEUROQUANTOLOGY and chapter of consciousness book.
Evolving Words (Wellcome Trust-funded national project for Darwin 200): mentoring and performing with groups of young writers nationwide, working with genetics and evolutionary scientists at Cambridge and Newcastle's Centre for Life.
Leeds Hospitals for TONIC (cancer & long-stay patients) via Char March: writing for and with patients, including those with dementia. Work displayed in hospitals.
Ilkley Literature Festival Poet in Residence.
El Gouna: month's residency at a 5* Hotel, Red Sea, Egypt, international residency to finish my collection ALL THAT LIVES.
Dilston Physic Garden, Northumberland. Creating third quantum haiku: running workshops etc. Owned by neuropathologists Elaine and Robert Perry. Ongoing residency. Currently co-authoring a major book on physic gardens with Elaine and her botanist daughter Dr Nicolette Perry for Green Books.
