{"id":743,"date":"2014-10-02T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T08:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=743"},"modified":"2014-10-02T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T08:05:51","slug":"poetry-meets-archaeology-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2014\/10\/02\/poetry-meets-archaeology-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry meets archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poet and alumnus\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dansimpsonpoet.wordpress.com\/\">Dan Simpson<\/a>\u00a0(Rutherford 2005), who graduated from Kent in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in English and American Literature,\u00a0is currently walking from London to Canterbury along the route of the Roman road as part of the project run by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/laurence.html\">Professor Ray Laurence<\/a>\u00a0and Dr\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/swift.html\">Ellen Swift\u00a0<\/a>from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The walk will help Dan to create a new and special piece of poetry, reflecting on his 50 mile journey\u00a0and will also raise\u00a0greater public awareness of local museums that house a wealth of information about the Roman past.<\/p>\n<p>Having started his journey on 29 September, Dan has already visited the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartford.gov.uk\/by-category\/leisure-and-culture2\/museums-and-galleries\">Dartford Museum<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medway.gov.uk\/leisurecultureandsport\/localhistoryandarchives\/museums\/guildhallmuseum.aspx\">Rochester Guildhall Museum<\/a>. His next stop tomorrow\u00a0will be\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/daysout\/properties\/maison-dieu\/\">Maison Dieu museum<\/a>\u00a0in Faversham, where Lloyd Bosworth will be laser-scanning objects and photographing objects found in the Ospringe Roman cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p>Dan will complete his walk to Canterbury on Friday 3 October, and will present\u00a0\u00a0his poem\u00a0that evening\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterbury.co.uk\/Canterbury-Canterbury-Roman-Museum\/details\/?dms=3&amp;venue=3030500\">Canterbury Roman Museum<\/a>\u00a0to staff of the museum service, Roman experts from the University of Kent, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Kent has world-leading experts in the field of artefact studies.\u00a0 Notably Dr Ellen Swift, whose most recent work sets out to understand the nature of Roman design of everyday objects from dice to spoons.<\/p>\n<p>Dan commented: &#8216;Having been taught by staff in the School of European Culture and Languages during my time at Kent as an undergraduate, I am incredibly excited to be working with the School by being in-residence at the Canterbury Roman Museum. This project gives me a chance to get involved with the fascinating research the School undertakes, and use it creatively as I walk from London to Canterbury &#8211; making new and historical discoveries along the way.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>You can interact with Dan as he walks on twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dansimpsonpoet\">@dansimpsonpoet\u00a0<\/a>with the hashtag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/romanresidency?src=hash\">#romanresidency<\/a>\u00a0or follow his progress on the web\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/canterburyromanresident.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/canterburyromanresident.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet and alumnus\u00a0Dan Simpson\u00a0(Rutherford 2005), who graduated from Kent in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in English and American Literature,\u00a0is currently walking from London to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2014\/10\/02\/poetry-meets-archaeology-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34788,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}