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This Chapter has been designed as a confidence builder for engaging with poetry, providing an introduction for how to find different science poems, as well as guidance for how to read and analyse them in relation to the science that they involve. Some basic scaffolding and structure for creating your own science poems, and the benefits for doing so, are also presented and discussed.

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Illingworth, S. (2022). RAW Poetry. In: Science Communication Through Poetry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96829-8_2

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