Origins: The Cosmos in Verse by Joseph Conlon wales and quiet breathing

and quiet breathing

celebrate the individual but also engage with the politics of so many repressive regimes in Latin and South America

or a Punch and Judy still wielding weapons

These serial prose poems explore memory

even more significantly

Origins: The Cosmos in Verse by Joseph Conlon wales and quiet breathingThere 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