{"id":3117,"date":"2014-09-16T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2017-06-15T10:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:31:22","slug":"poetry-meets-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/09\/16\/poetry-meets-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry meets archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poet <a href=\"http:\/\/dansimpsonpoet.wordpress.com\">Dan Simpson<\/a>, an alumnus of the University, will walk from London to Canterbury along the route of the Roman road as part of the project run by Professor Ray Laurence and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/swift.html\">Dr Ellen Swift<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dan will\u00a0produce a poetic performance about\u00a0the experience of walking the road, the research of Kent\u2019s archaeologists and historians, and visiting local museums. This is being done to create greater public awareness of local museums that house a wealth of information about the Roman past.<\/p>\n<p>On 29 September, Dan will walk from Shooters Hill to Dartford and visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartford.gov.uk\/by-category\/leisure-and-culture2\/museums-and-galleries\">Dartford Museum<\/a>, where Lloyd Bosworth, Archaeology Technician in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, will be laser-scanning objects in collaboration with Dr Mike Still, the curator of the museum.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, 30 September, Dan will visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medway.gov.uk\/sportleisureandculture\/museums\/guildhallmuseum.aspx\">Rochester Guildhall Museum<\/a>. On day three, 1 October, he will visit Sittingbourne, with a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sittingbourne-museum.co.uk\">Heritage Museum<\/a>. On day four, 2 October, Dan will walk to Faversham to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/daysout\/properties\/maison-dieu\/\">Maison Dieu<\/a> museum, where Lloyd Bosworth will again be laser-scanning and photographing objects found in the Ospringe Roman cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, 3 October, sees him walk to Canterbury via Bigbury Hillfort, a site at the heart \u00a0of Kent doctoral student Andy Bates\u2019s research.\u00a0 In the evening, Dan will present his poem in the <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 (this event is not open to the public, but Dan&#8217;s journey can be\u00a0followed on Twitter #romanresidency).<\/p>\n<p>Dan commented: \u2018Having 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\u00a0walk from London to Canterbury &#8211; making new and historical discoveries along the way.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>You can interact with Dan as he walks on twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dansimpsonpoet\">@dansimpsonpoet<\/a> with the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/romanresidency?src=hash\">#romanresidency<\/a> or follow his progress on the web <a href=\"http:\/\/canterburyromanresident.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/canterburyromanresident.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poet Dan Simpson, an alumnus of the University, will walk from London to Canterbury along the route of the Roman road as part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/09\/16\/poetry-meets-archaeology\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7500,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions\/7500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}