Window for a Small Blue Child

Gerrie Fellows reads from her new Carcanet poetry collection which charts her personal experience of conceiving a child through IVF. Gerrie Fellows was born in New Zealand and now lives in Scotland. Her first collection, Technologies and other poems, was published by Polygon in 1990, followed ten years later by The Powerlines, and The Duntroon Toponymy in 2001. She will be joined by Dr Daniel Brison, Scientific Director of the Department of Reproductive Medicine at St. Mary's Hospital, who will take part in a post reading discussion about the future of fertility treatment and issues relating to the Human Tissue and Embryo Bill currently passing through parliament. The event will be chaired by poet Helen Clare.