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Bayer CropScience/ Eastern Daily Press
Poetry Competition 2007
‘Dreams’ was the theme for this year’s Bayer CropScience/ Eastern Daily Press Poetry Competition. SAW founder Anne Osbourn helped select this year’s winners, who were announced on National Poetry Day. Click here to read the winning and highly commended poems.
Research science in schools with SAW 2007-2008
In an exciting development for the 2007-8 academic year, research scientists from the John Innes Centre and the Institute of Food Research will team up with local poets and artists to use their specialist research as a basis for adventures in practical science and the creative arts in twelve Norfolk primary schools. There will be a celebration at the John Innes Centre at the end of the series next Summer, and children’s work will be published in a pamphlet and online. This project is supported by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Science in Society Award.
Poetry-next-the-sea 2008
SAW founder Anne Osbourn has been invited to be the School Poet 2008 for the Poetry-next-the-sea annual literary festival. Anne will spend a week working with schools on the North Norfolk Coast using science as a focus for poetry, and will also lead a children’s session at the Festival in May. Watch this space for more info.
