Shadow Box

<p><em>Shadow Box</em> originated with a single piece 'The Curiosities of Dr Hunter' a poem which gathered together many objects from Glasgow's Hunterian Museum in an investigation into the nature of eighteenth-century collecting; but the museum holds so many objects to catch the eye and imagination - cultural artefacts from across the world scientific instruments medical specimens objects of the natural world - from which<span style=color: rgba(68 114 196 1)> </span>so many kinds of poem might be written. Here then are poems caught between the perfection of a single thing and a necessary enquiry into how the object came to be here what its meanings might be and who comes to be an observer here.  </p>