A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science

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In a wonderfully surprising and eclectic selection of poems, this anthology counters the notion that science and poetry are magnetically opposed. The editors have found poets as varied as Shelley, W.H. Auden, Jo Shapcott and Diane Ackerman, whose inspiration is science - its discoveries, processes, and implications - and whose view of the world is influenced by scientific ideas, whether from before Copernicus or after Einstein.

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Maurice Riordan was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Co. Cork. His first collection, A Word from the Loki (1995), was nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize, as was The Water Stealer (2013). Floods (2000) was a Book of the Year in both the Sunday Times and the Irish Times, and The Holy Land (2007) won the Michael Hartnett Award. He lives in London, where he has taught at Imperial College and Goldsmiths College. Riordan was Editor of The Poetry Review from 2013 to 2017 and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University.