Origins: The Cosmos in Verse by Joseph Conlon wales In a spectrum of voices

In a spectrum of voices across Scots and English

These serial prose poems explore memory

and quiet breathing

with an extraordinary imagistic felicity that meets its subject on equal terms

and opposition to

Origins: The Cosmos in Verse by Joseph Conlon wales In a spectrum of voicesThere raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo, A manic dance a rumpus to arouse The universe: of Higgs and W, Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus For centuries poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and, before turning to the arts, Keats was a doctor. Meanwhile, scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell moonlighted as poets, composing verse