When Pythagoras met Homer: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs recalls a time when being a mathematician was like being a poet.
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In 1894, Edouard Michelin, the fine artist of a gifted family, looked at a pile of tyres and said to his engineer brother André: “With arms and legs, that would look like a man.”
Merryn Williams reviews an anthology of poems about the NHS which express both gratitude and anxiety
Roger Caldwell finds that Alice Major composes poetry with a brain as well as a heart
Thomas Ovans discovers that poetry and medicine can mix rather well in this handsome anthology from Hippocrates Press
Peter Daniels finds that Philip Fried’s new collection displays wit, inventiveness and erudition to a degree that becomes almost daunting.
A first collection by Barbara Cumbers confounds the old idea of “two cultures” and shows a happy blending of scientific and poetic observation. .
Poetry and Science are skilfully mixed in a new collection by Canadian poet Alice Major
Martin Noutch observes that geology and poetry work well together in a recent anthology edited by Michael McKimm
Thomas Ovans finds that Jo Colley’s flying-related collection deals with much more than aeroplanes
Optimization & Optimism Michael Bartholomew-Biggs looks at links between mathematics & poetry
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, medicine, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, medicine, poetry, Thomas Ovans • 1 Comment
Poetry Review – Heart Murmur: Thomas Ovans enjoys Emma Storr’s use of medical language to make well-crafted and engaging poetry.