Poems about the universe: from the sub-atomic level to the cosmic, from bacteria to complex life and exoplanets. The physicist Richard Feynman challenged poets to step aside from metaphor and capture the stark magnificence of the universe. Spurred to action, James Thornton opened himself to wonders and dived deep into the intricacies of science. Let his poetry open your eyes. Complete with an essay on Poetry and Science.
Poems about the universe: from the sub-atomic level to the cosmic, from bacteria to complex life and exoplanets. The physicist Richard Feynman challenged poets to step aside from metaphor and capture the stark magnificence of the universe. Spurred to action, James Thornton opened himself to wonders and dived deep into the intricacies of science. Let his poetry open your eyes. Complete with an essay on Poetry and Science.
James Thornton is a poet, Zen Buddhist priest, and founder and president of ClientEarth, the leading global not-for-profit law group. As a lawyer, with the Earth as his client, James sees that 'Nature speaks in the grammar of science’. He is a Conservation Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society. The New Statesman named him one of 10 people who could change the world. Irish-American, born in New York, James is also the author of Client Earth (Scribe 2018), co-authored with his husband Martin Goodman, which received the Judges’ Selection, Business Book of the Year Award 2018, and the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature from Santa Monica Public Library. He has twice won Leader of the Year at the Business Green Awards. For his legal work, The Financial Times awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. His writing includes two novels, a book of spiritual practice, and three volumes of poetry. He was a judge for the 2020 Laurel Awards for Ecopoetry. He lives in London and Los Angeles.
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Contents Introduction Census of deep life Embodied semantics Of mice and scorpions Rumination and forest bathing A dozen ways to make a living The future of clouds The jaguar sometimes bites Symbiont real estate Páramos The apex predator guild Your inner fish Tomb blossoms Long ago and under water Traumatic matings Quartet with parasites The dead fish of Chad The lodger Like milkshakes Hungry daughters The rolling of the dungball Head of glass Fringed with teeth E.O. Wilson’s favourite ant Eminent Britons Aerial wars Penis Envy The news about Neanderthals Conquering Earth A century of gorging A bulletin from our branch Warm wet and quantum New equilibria The rules of loss Spat 1 Chiropterans Count those lost Coelacanths among us Q is for cryptography Ringdown The end of time Too few to fill the sky Never forget red dwarfs The biggest star Cosmonautika A time will come By grace of the solar wind A map of peculiar velocities
Contents Introduction Census of deep life Embodied semantics Of mice and scorpions Rumination and forest bathing A dozen ways to make a living The future of clouds The jaguar sometimes bites Symbiont real estate Páramos The apex predator guild Your inner fish Tomb blossoms Long ago and under water Traumatic matings Quartet with parasites The dead fish of Chad The lodger Like milkshakes Hungry daughters The rolling of the dungball Head of glass Fringed with teeth E.O. Wilson’s favourite ant Eminent Britons Aerial wars Penis Envy The news about Neanderthals Conquering Earth A century of gorging A bulletin from our branch Warm wet and quantum New equilibria The rules of loss Spat 1 Chiropterans Count those lost Coelacanths among us Q is for cryptography Ringdown The end of time Too few to fill the sky Never forget red dwarfs The biggest star Cosmonautika A time will come By grace of the solar wind A map of peculiar velocities
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