About

Welcome to Topical Poetry!

I am Bard of Thought For Food, as well as a scientist and science communicator.

My poetry has featured on the BBC, ITV, Brazil's Rede Globo and at international events from PICNIC Brazil to One Young World, Sandbox and the Thought for Food Global Summit.

I started this blog in 2012 as a PhD student wanting to express my ideas in a more creative way. Little did I know how much I would fall in love with poetry since my first adventures into writing about all things topical, from science and the environment through to food security, politics and aspects of social life.

Since those first steps, I've come a long way - publishing my first collection of poems, Millennial, then my second, Thirty, as well as appearing on the BBC and Ink, Sweat and Tears (twice). My latest poem for Thought For Food, No New Normal, was broadcast worldwide.

I regularly perform my poetry at events both nationally and internationally, including an exploration of multispectral thinking in "Us and Them" and the 25 minute dub-reggae-evolution-extinction spectacular, "Super Ape".

The poems in this blog have a food-security, environmental, scientific, or political theme, including minor rants that I deviate towards after hearing the day's news - though after all, this is "Topical Poetry."

In my day job(s), I have been Science Communications and Outreach Manager at Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK, for seven years - though soon to be working on some exciting communications projects with the European Space Agency, Thought For Food and the John Innes Centre.

I have also written extensively for SynBioBeta, with many articles featuring also in Forbes.

I've been privileged to act as an Ambassador (and Bard) for Thought for Food since 2011, an international movement dedicated to helping solve the global food crisis with next generation thinking.

I hope you enjoy my work and please leave comments underneath if you like my topical poems, or have any suggestions / points of discussion you'd like to raise.  I mostly post these things to stimulate a conversation.

Cheers,

Peter Bickerton.

P.S. I have another blog, "Prose-ac", with less topical poetry. You can also see my work at www.jugglingdoctor.com, including my writing.

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