Earlier this year, ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø launched the inaugural , where alumni, staff, and students of the University were invited to submit a poem on the theme ‘ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø means the world to me’.
Lauren Bolger, Postgraduate and Recruitment Admissions Assistant from the , , won top prize in the staff category for her poem ‘ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø Lens’.
ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø Lens by Lauren Bolger
ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø sits at the edge of her industrial bed
fresh from the labs and the quiet archives
and patiently watches us write – under the arches
of two lovers, statues in the Rylands library
looking at each other, a mirror to ourselves
In the reading room we drive beyond the margins
a path, which ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø expands
on what we say near telescopes or the singing beehives
where we trace and retrace our research, careers, lives
together in a city, which will sit with us forever
In its language and silence we witness what it means
to see our community support their students’ impact
on the world because it means the world to us
to be humane – to shape the world through,
a University of ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø lens
Original ideas bloom within the rhythm of the rain
illuminating the silence of the page with our talent
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