Dung Beetles Navigate by Starlight - Couverture souple

Watkinson, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910836583 ISBN 13 : 9781910836583

Editeur : Cinnamon Press, 2017

Synopsis

These poems explore the boundary between science and poetry, and juxtapose the lexicon of organic chemistry, in particular, with a botanical discourse which is more conventional in poetry, but which the scientifc treatment defamiliarises.

Far from being abstruse and heavy, the treatment here lightens the subject with an imaginative playfulness, as in The First Green Human: The Observer Interviews Clorinda , where Marvell s pastoral character is turned, through a journalistic register, into a personifcation of current ecological concerns.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Watkinson is an emeritus research fellow in Plant Sciences at Oxford University, where, throughout a career as a lecturer, she specialised in the activities of microscopic fungi that sustain forests, and rot and recycle remains. She has been writing and studying poetry since 2012, and realising how both poetry and science involve imagination in pursuit of understanding. Her poetry has appeared in UK anthologies and magazines including Litmus, Pennine Platform and The Rialto, and has been successful in several competitions. Dung Beetles Navigate by Starlight is her debut pamphlet. She is the co-author of a textbook, The Fungi, and has written numerous scientific papers. With Jenny Lewis she organised SciPo in 2016, an event in Oxford for Science Poetry which attracted an enthusiastic attendance. She lives near Oxford and in Northumberland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cinnamon Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910836583
• ISBN 13: 9781910836583
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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