Wednesday, November 17, 2010

LONDON: How not to be afraid of the dark

Monday, 29th November, 2010, 7pm
National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich
SE10 9NF

Booking and further details at http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/events/how-not-to-be-afraid-of-the-dark

Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks about the way poetry has inspired and influenced her work with readings from some of her favorite poems. Jocelyn discovered pulsars, a new type of super-dense star, in 1967 and recently edited the Gulbenkian Foundation's anthology "Dark Matter: Poems of Space" with Maurice Riordan - a project which included pairing contemporary poets with astronomers to produce new works. Her talk is accompanied by a short play from Honeysuckle Direction.

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