Questions for discussion will include: how differently do poets and scientists understand the world? Does truth mean the same in science and in poetry? What do scientists and poets each mean by ‘beauty’? Why are science and poetry both widely seen as remote and abstruse when both focus on the real and the ordinary? How different is the language of science and poetry? How do we write poetry about things too big or too small to experience? How do we reconcile scientific objectivity, distance and rationality with the personal close-up subjectivity of poetry?