As we are welcoming Brain Awareness Week 2020 starting this Monday, I decided to share some insights from the full version of my book 'Multilingual Neuropoetry' at Radio Harrow, which becomes available for purchase this month. Tune in this week for more information, or check out the following link to listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecu8gkcmVwA
The interview at this link is the first of twelve parts. In the first part of the interview with Radio Harrow, I first define what neuropoetry is, and what my motivations were for writing this book. In the second part of the interview, I talk about the aims that I would like to meet with my book 'Multilingual Neuropoetry'. I also talk about the aspects that give the book its unique touch.
In this book I present ideas on human experience and human nature at the interface between art and science. Therefore 'Multilingual Neuropoetry' is a particular written piece of neuroart. I also introduce in this book my poetic invention that is a new poem form that I call the 'rainbow poem'. This poem form was inspired by the rainbow, and I dedicate it to the beauty of nature.
In the additional parts of the interview I also address the connection between art and science, and in this case the link between poetry and neuroscience, the combination of which gives rise to neuropoetry. Both poetry and neuroscience can tell us about the meaning of our human experience, and I talk in more detail about this aspect in my book 'Multilingual Neuropoetry'.
I also share in the interview how my book can help you start creating your own neuropoem. In the book I give further details regarding how poets, neuroscientists, teachers of poetry, neuroscience and languages, and everyone else can use the book to approach the topic of neuropoetry in the most practical way possible.
Moreover, in the interview I explain why there is a poet and a scientist in each and everyone of us. I also recite some neuropoems. Because I created the neuropoems as neuropoetic riddles, the host had the fun of guessing the answers to each neuropoem that I presented. Towards the end of the interview I shared some news on the events that I have planned to bring the idea of neuropoetry closer to different audiences.
You can find updates on my attendance at these events here in my blog. I also explain in the interview why 'Multilingual Neuropoetry' is a book for everyone, and how it is a multipurpose book. I end the interview by telling the host where you can get the book and when it becomes available.
