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About This Blog
A Work in Progress: Poetry of Science and Technology
Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in the night.
God said ‘Let Newton be!’ and all was light.
Alexander Pope (1730)
Three intial ‘Cantos’ are proposed for the eventual sorting of suggestions and
submissions to the anthology:
Canto One : How It Started
a selection of excerpts from suggested ‘historic’ pieces by well-and lesser known writers (e.g. Erasmus Darwin, Lucretius, Pope, Shelley,
Heraclitus etc) broadly, but not slavishly, up to the end of the nineteenth century.
Canto Two : The 20th/21st Centuries
An updated selection from suggested contemporary and ‘recent’ pieces by professional poets (e.g. Wendy Cope’s ‘Engineers’ Corner’, John Agard’s ‘Millennium Bug’, Marianne Moore ‘Four Quartz Crystal Clocks’ etc).
Canto Three : New Writing
‘New’ writing by people working in the professional Science/Engineering/Arts and related communities, worldwide.
The online anthology is now open for suggestions and submissions; by email to ralph@ralphwindle.com ; though the ‘canto’ structure will not be imposed during the early collation of pieces through to end 2010. Meanwhile there will be frequent postings of suggested work.
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It did not last: the Devil howling ‘Ho!’
Let Einstein be!’ restored the status quo.
J.C. Squire (1926)