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Introducing The Conversation Climate Poetry Award – for UK-based academics

We’re launching a new poetry award to bring science and creativity closer together. Too often, research can stay locked in academic language – but poetry offers a powerful way to make ideas felt, not just understood. This prize is for UK-based researchers who want to explore the climate crisis through…

The Conversation · May 6

TechScape: Crypto in the dock, Musk in the frame and fiendish puzzles – three chilling tales for Halloween

Gather round and hear three of the latest scary stories from Silicon Valley and beyond that will frighten you long after the candy is eaten

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2023

The Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort – verse as indelible as tattoos

The poet’s risk-taking third collection uses body art as a means of self-examination and as an emotional keepsake

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2022