About

‘The Human Genome: Poems on the Book of Life’ is the major work for which poet Gillian K Ferguson won the £25,000 Creative Scotland Award, presented by the Scottish Arts Council. She has spent five years exploring the Human Genome, the entire human genetic code – creating 1,000 pages of poems interwoven with short extracts from interviews, academic papers, newspaper reports and books. This ground-breaking poetic work has been written and designed as an interactive website and can be found here in full, without any charge – and each day another poem will be added to this blog. The author will also be commenting on and introducing her work here – and you are also welcome to ask questions or comment. If you would like to subscribe to the feed/email, you will receive the daily sequential selection of poetry from the work.