Poets invited to wax lyrical on genetics

A POETRY competition inspired by genetics has been launched in the Capital.
By The Newsroom
Published 19th Aug 2010, 14:14 BST
Updated 20th Aug 2010, 12:50 BST

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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Pippa 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."