Poetry Review – LITANY OF A CARDIOLOGIST: Carla Scarano considers a tightly-focussed debut collection by poet and heart specialist Denise Bundred
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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.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, technology, year 2019 • Tags: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry, technology • 0 Comments
When Pythagoras met Homer: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs recalls a time when being a mathematician was like being a poet.
by Barbara Lewis • exhibitions, technology, travel, year 2019 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, exhibitions, technology, travel •
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.”
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, medicine, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, Merryn Williams, poetry • 0 Comments
Merryn Williams reviews an anthology of poems about the NHS which express both gratitude and anxiety
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, science, year 2018 • Tags: books, poetry, Roger Caldwell, science • 0 Comments
Roger Caldwell finds that Alice Major composes poetry with a brain as well as a heart
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, medicine, poetry reviews, science, year 2018 • Tags: books, medicine, poetry, science, Thomas Ovans • 0 Comments
Thomas Ovans discovers that poetry and medicine can mix rather well in this handsome anthology from Hippocrates Press
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, science, year 2017 • Tags: books, Peter Daniels, poetry, science • 0 Comments
Peter Daniels finds that Philip Fried’s new collection displays wit, inventiveness and erudition to a degree that becomes almost daunting.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, science, year 2016 • Tags: books, poetry, science • 0 Comments
A first collection by Barbara Cumbers confounds the old idea of “two cultures” and shows a happy blending of scientific and poetic observation. .
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, science, year 2016 • Tags: poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry and Science are skilfully mixed in a new collection by Canadian poet Alice Major
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, science, year 2015 • 0 Comments
Martin Noutch observes that geology and poetry work well together in a recent anthology edited by Michael McKimm
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, science, year 2020 • Tags: books, Carla Scarano, poetry, science • 0 Comments
Poetry review – WAVELENGTHS: Carla Scarano browses a collection in which the two voices of Belinda Singleton and Kathryn Southworth speculate on scientific phenomena