Free on Wednesday? In Cambridge?

The rules of form: sonnets and slide rules: Wednesday 14 March 6:00PM - 7:00PM

Drawing inspiration from the Whipple Museum's Hutchinson collection of mathematical instruments,we will discuss constraints of creative form in literature and poetry, from Oulipo to the Gothic. It will be an evening of poetry and Oulipo-inspired discussion, playing with... ideas of mathematics and measuring the world. Two excellent guest speakers, Dr Joe Crawford of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and the talented Badaude of Oxford, will speak about their contributions to the Whipple's first art-book (forthcoming). Other contributors to the book, 'The Rules of Form: Sonnets & Slide Rules,' include poet Lesley Saunders, PhD student Caitlin Wylie, and artist & designer Cassie Herschel-Shorland, as well as Joe Crawford and Badaude.

I have a spare ticket for this -- free of charge, but you do have to turn up at the same time as me!