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Projects

David Rees guesturing as he gives a talk about his work on the cover of Sequences & Pathogens.

Poetry Meets Biomedical Science

Poetry Meets Biomedical Science was the first Litmus venture, interdisciplinary collaborative project with ten poets and ten biomedical science professors.

The Caves

As an independent scholar, I am currently composing three separate creative outputs on my exploration of caves. This project has been funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme, the Arts Council, and Society of Authors.
A sealed glass jar of Wormwood (artemisia absinthium) with the poem "Wormwood" by Chris McCabe printed in black on a white label. Photograph by Maria Vlotides.

Litmus

In 2013, I secured Arts Council funding to launch Litmus, a journal exploring the intersection between science and literature.

Unleashed

As a Poetry Tutor for the Barbican Arts Centre, I worked on a large-scale multi-genre professional arts project, Unleashed.

Lyrical Surgeries Substack

You'll find my latest posts from substack right here. Click on a post to open the corresponding substack page

Pilgrims Hospice

In my role at the University of Kent, I designed and oversaw a collaborative Creative Writing project with students from the University of Kent and the Pilgrims Hospice charity.

Lyrical Surgeries Podcast

Lyrical Surgeries Episode One with my first guest, the philosopher, Graeme A. Forbes.
Dorothy standing by a microphone

Conference Poet

I was the Conference poet for Medicine in its Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts, at the Society for the Social History of Medicine biennial conference at the University of Kent (2016).

Writing Bomberg

I facilitated Writing Bomberg: Poetry & Voice, a two-part workshop and public showcase responding to the exhibition David Bomberg: Objects of Collection.

E17 community project

I deliveredĀ a series of writing workshops in collaboration with arts organisation, the drawing shed.
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