You can download the PowerPoint of my talk at Mount Kelly College, on 18 April 2017, here: Creativity_a provocation_Mount Kelly College_April 2017_Anthony Wilson.
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I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. My most recent books are Deck Shoes (Impress Books, 2019), a book of prose memoir and criticism, and The Afterlife (Worple Press, 2019). In 2023 I will publish The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, with Blue Diode Press. My current research project, with Sue Dymoke from Nottingham Trent University and funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library. View all posts by Anthony Wilson
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Hi Anthony, some great insights here and I love the cross-disciplinary out-take. It reminds me of the outlook of Miroslav Holub, himself a poet and immunologist. “Creativity is the source of waves across of broad surface of culture – new, unique, surprising, elegant waves.” (from Maxwell’s Demon). Surely one of the biggest institutional barriers to creativity in the UK is how our education system still points people towards either science or the arts without recognising that it is often the interaction of the two that sparks genuine innovation?
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Thank you for introducing me to Simon Parke whose counsel I have value for some months now and whose quotes sit well in your useful presentation.
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Thank you for this! Encouraging to see how many women you mention 😉
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