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Microscopic Sea Shells

Posted by Laura Ashby on Thursday, August 16th, 2007

I’ve been writing my poem Feedback Loop, written from the point of view of a type of shelled plankton called the Foraminifera and I’ve discovered that the poet Sarah Maguire has written a poem about the Foraminifera too. I’m relieved to find that the two poems are so dissimilar. Hers is very lovely and can be found here:

http://www.thepoetryhouse.org/PHProjects/Project7/project7.html

and mine will be soon available on the main Small Worlds website.

The Laboratory and the Fairground

Posted by Laura Ashby on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I’ve just been very struck by this:“In Evenings at the Microscope he [Gosse] wrote: ‘like the work of some mighty genie of Oriental fable, the brazen tube is the key that unlocks a world of wonder and beauty before invisible, which one who has once gazed upon it can never forget’. This was the language of the laboratory leaning on the language of the fairground.”

Marina Benjamin, ‘Sliding Scales: Microphotography and the Victorian Obsession with the Minuscule’, in Francis Spufford and Jenny Uglow (eds), Cultural Babbage: Technology, Time and Invention, London: Faber and Faber, 1997, pp. 99–122.

quoting

Philip Henry Gosse, ‘Evenings at the Microscope’ London: SPCK, 1877.

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