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		<title>Whipple Creative Writing Workshop Contributions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some further contributions from workshop participants&#8230;
From Immy, aged 10, the youngest participant in our Creative Writing Workshop.
Immy bravely serenaded us with a lovely song about the ship-shaped sundial, and then impressed us further by reading us a story, &#8216;The Globe of Puzzles,&#8217; about the jigsaw-puzzle globe. Her contributions are below.
Thank you, Immy!
  
The Sundial Song
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		<link>http://kelleyswain.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/whipple-creative-writing-workshop-contributions/</link>
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		<title>Literary Events at the Whipple: Poetry Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday 29 October, the Whipple held its first creative writing workshop. Led by Katy Price, Melanie Keene and myself, the group of twelve explored &#8216;object stories,&#8217; inspired by some beautiful and fascinating museum objects.
Many thanks to Sarah, Melanie, Katy &#38; Steve for their workshop contributions!
We began by reading and discussing a few examples of short [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kelleyswain.wordpress.com&blog=3972380&post=543&subd=kelleyswain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kelleyswain.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/literary-events-at-the-whipple-poetry-workshop/</link>
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		<title>Literary events at the Whipple: Dr. Holmes, &#8216;Darwin&#8217;s Bards&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of our growing series of literature-and-science events at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, last Thursday evening Dr. John Holmes from the University of Reading gave an excellent talk on his recently published book, &#8216;Darwin&#8217;s Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution.&#8216;
John is a bard of bards&#8211; he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kelleyswain.wordpress.com&blog=3972380&post=535&subd=kelleyswain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kelleyswain.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/literary-events-at-the-whipple-dr-holmes-darwins-bards/</link>
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		<title>Poet in the Parlour: Residency, Day 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[22/10/09
An interesting phenomenon I’ve noticed that falls somewhere along the spectrum from ‘myself-as-poet-in-residence-with-whom-museum-guests-enjoy-an-interesting-chat,’ to, ‘myself-as-mistaken-docent-whom-people-ask-questions-relating-to-musem-objects-which-to-my-surprise-I-have-actually-been-able-to-answer,’ to— ‘myself-as-somehow-a-museum-object-or-specimen’!
Person enters Parlour and possibly notices my sign. Ah, person thinks, ‘poet in the parlour,’ looking over at me, sat in the little brown velvet Victorian chair, reading or writing, or typing on my not-so-Victorian-laptop. Person moves on to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kelleyswain.wordpress.com&blog=3972380&post=528&subd=kelleyswain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kelleyswain.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/poet-in-the-parlour-residency-day-4/</link>
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		<title>Poet in the Parlour: Residency, Day 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[21/10/09
Wednesday was a quiet day, for me anyway, in the Parlour.
One challenge to being in residence in the Parlour is that this particular room is set up so people, particularly children, can touch and play with the objects, to explore and interact and discover. On one hand, this makes me, a living and hopefully interactive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kelleyswain.wordpress.com&blog=3972380&post=522&subd=kelleyswain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kelleyswain.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/poet-in-the-parlour-residency-day-3/</link>
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		<title>Poet in the Parlour: Residency, Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[20/10/09
Today has been fairly quiet so far—about seven people have come through the Victorian Parlour as of 2pm, and I had a pleasant little chat with one. The sign has definitely helped people understand why I’m here, though there is still a bit of the jumpy shyness from some guests who are deep in thought, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kelleyswain.wordpress.com&blog=3972380&post=515&subd=kelleyswain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kelleyswain.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/poet-in-the-parlour-residency-day-2/</link>
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		<title>Poet in the Parlour: Residency, day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 19/10/09
I attended the Cabinet of Natural History at 1pm today, at which PhD student Ruth Horry gave a fascinating talk on air ships and the attempt to capture plant spores over one trans-Atlantic voyage. It made for a sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, always interesting story.
Then on to the Victorian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kelleyswain.wordpress.com&blog=3972380&post=506&subd=kelleyswain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kelleyswain.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/poet-in-the-parlour-residency-day-1/</link>
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		<title>Science Mag &amp; Astronomy Poetry at the NMM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you can, please buy a copy of the current issue of Science Magazine (out 2nd Oct)! For one, it&#8217;s the &#8216;Ardi&#8217; issue: groundbreaking. For another, it has poems from the panel at the Cambridge Darwin Festival, including one by myself, one by John Barnie, and one by Ruth Padel&#8211; hooray!
On a slightly different note, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kelleyswain.wordpress.com&blog=3972380&post=499&subd=kelleyswain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kelleyswain.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/science-mag-astronomy-poetry-at-the-nmm/</link>
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		<title>The Evolution of &#8216;The Origin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This beautifully artistic chart is well worth watching. It shows how Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution changed and, well, evolved over time as he went through editions of his book, On the Origin of Species.
The Origin is one of the most important books ever written (and re-written, and re-written)&#8211; and, as illustrated so well here, one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kelleyswain.wordpress.com&blog=3972380&post=495&subd=kelleyswain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kelleyswain.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/the-evolution-of-the-origin/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was awakened by my four-year-old cat landing next to my head and belching softly in my ear. She must have been welcoming me home. The day before we left on holiday, she sat on my chest drooling onto my face. Her favourite general passtime seems to be tap-dancing on my head at six [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kelleyswain.wordpress.com&blog=3972380&post=492&subd=kelleyswain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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