Sam Illingworth is a science communication scholar from the UK. Sam’s particular area of interest is poetry as a communication tool, and every week he picks a new paper, writes a nontechnical summary, and crafts a poem – which he then records and posts online. Sam shared his unique approach to science communication this semester in an engaging and highly creative virtual presentation for the Ecoinformatics Seminar. Follow-on communication between Andrew and Sam led to Sam using the recent PNAS paper by former lab visitor Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez as inspiration for this week’s poetry creation and blog post.
Sam’s evocative reading of his poem, Drunken Forests, is available on SoundCloud through the link below.
Thanks, Sam, for helping us to share this work with a wider audience!