A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists,
Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through
its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry
and science can meet with productive results. Crossing between
disciplines, and between prose and verse, the book shows how modes
of scientific knowledge and of poetic making continue to be
intertwined. Often drawing on Scottish intellectual traditions,
rather than on the notorious "two cultures" argument, Contemporary
Poetry and Contemporary Science argues through examples for a more
open and mutually sympathetic engagement of poetry and science in
contemporary culture.
Provocative, nimble, and surprising, this book is in several
senses a crossover volume. In its gathering of essays as well as
poems, it is the first book of its kind. Readers can see how a poet
and a solar physicist may share working assumptions; how poetic
insight may inform psychiatric practice; how a poet's encounter
with an MRI scanner leads to a fresh neurological experiment. As
well as new essays by internationally distinguished poets,
scientists, and literary critics--including Simon Armitage, Gillian
Beer, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Miroslav Holub, Kay Redfield Jamison,
and Edwin Morgan--the book includes a series of specially
commissioned poems by John Burnside, Michael Donaghy, Sarah
Maguire, Paul Muldoon, Don Paterson, and others. Each poem is
introduced by the scientist whose work prompted the poem.
Though Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science exposes and
investigates strains between the way poets and scientists see and
reinvent the world, the book is most arresting and enjoyable when
it shows just how oftenpoets and scientists agree.
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