{"id":351,"date":"2012-11-29T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T10:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=351"},"modified":"2012-11-29T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T10:59:18","slug":"kellogg-college-centre-for-creative-writing-lesley-saunders-26-feb-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing: Lesley Saunders, 26 Feb 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Stopforth Metcalfe Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>4.45pm (refreshments) for 5.15pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Tuesday 26 February 2013<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<strong><em>Lesley Saunders<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>\u201cParsimony &amp; Provisionality:<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Do poetry &amp; science have <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>interesting things in common?<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesley Saunders<\/strong> is the author of four collections of poetry, including Christina the Astonishing, which she co-wrote with Jane Draycott.\u00a0 Her latest book is Cloud Camera (Two Rivers Press 2012), which has been described as \u2018a cabinet of curiosities, assembled by an enquiring mind to delight, astound and edify\u2026 Saunders dresses her discoveries in language that is precise, evocative and as grimly meaningful as fairy tales\u2019. Her talk \u2013 which will also draw on her current experiences as writer-in-residence at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science \u2013 will invite us to consider the kinds of connections that can, and have been, made between poetry and science.<\/p>\n<p>Seminar Convenor:\u00a0 Dr Clare Morgan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/researchcentres\/creativewriting.php\">http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/researchcentres\/creativewriting.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing Stopforth Metcalfe Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road 4.45pm (refreshments) for 5.15pm Tuesday 26 February 2013 \u00a0Lesley Saunders: \u201cParsimony &amp; Provisionality: Do poetry &amp; science have interesting things in common?\u201d Lesley Saunders is the author of four collections of poetry, including Christina the Astonishing, which she co-wrote with Jane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-5F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2580,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2580","url_meta":{"origin":351,"position":0},"title":"George Szirtes on translation at Kellogg College","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"April 21, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest event in the continuing seminar series at the Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing will feature distinguished poet and MSt tutor, George Szirtes. 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