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Wild Reckonings

 

  • 05 October 2004, 18:30 - 20:30
Add to Calendar 10/05/04 06:30 PM 10/05/04 08:30 PM United Kingdom (GMT) Wild Reckonings <p>An evening of poetry from &amp;quot;Wild Reckoning&amp;quot; - an anthology of poems inspired by Rachel Carson&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Silent Spring&amp;quot;. Amongst those reading will be scientist Richard Dawkins, poets Ruth Padel and Simon Armitage and the editors of &amp;quot;Wild Reckoning&amp;quot;, John Burnside and Maurice Riordan. The evening will be chaired by Si&acirc;n Ede, Arts Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and editor of &amp;quot;Strange and Charmed: Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts&amp;quot;.</p> The Royal Society, London, SW1Y 5AG
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An evening of poetry from &quot;Wild Reckoning&quot; - an anthology of poems inspired by Rachel Carson&#39;s &quot;Silent Spring&quot;. Amongst those reading will be scientist Richard Dawkins, poets Ruth Padel and Simon Armitage and the editors of &quot;Wild Reckoning&quot;, John Burnside and Maurice Riordan. The evening will be chaired by Siân Ede, Arts Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and editor of &quot;Strange and Charmed: Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts&quot;.

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An evening of poetry from "Wild Reckoning" - an anthology of poems inspired by Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring". Amongst those reading will be scientist Richard Dawkins, poets Ruth Padel and Simon Armitage and the editors of "Wild Reckoning", John Burnside and Maurice Riordan. The evening will be chaired by Siân Ede, Arts Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and editor of "Strange and Charmed: Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts".

Organised in partnership with the UK branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation