Poets invited to wax lyrical on genetics
The ESRC Genomics Forum, based at the University of Edinburgh, is hoping budding poets will use genetics debates to stimulate some poetic answers for its brand new poetry competition launched in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library.
The free to enter competition invites writers to consider the implications for society of genetic technologies and what part these discoveries and new technologies could play in "improving the human".
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Hide AdPippa Goldschmidt, competition coordinator and writer in residence at the Genomics Forum, said: "In 1917's Heredity, Thomas Hardy used genetics - or germ plasm theory as it was then - as inspiration for his writing, also recognising the power of poetry in exploring cutting edge scientific development."