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OverviewA 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 often poets and scientists agree. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Crawford (Professor of Modern Scottish Literature, University of St Andrews)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.437kg ISBN: 9780199258123ISBN 10: 0199258120 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 07 September 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsRobert Crawford: Introduction Miroslav Holub: Rampage, or Science in Poetry Don Paterson, introduced by Andrew Riches: As Above Edwin Morgan: Poetry and Virtual Realities Michael Donaghy, introduced by Kevin Warwick: Grimoire Robert Crawford: Spirit Machines: The Human and the Computational Robert Crawford, introduced by Rona Ramsay: Biology W. N. Herbert: Testament and Confessions of an Informationist W. N. Herbert, introduced by Martin Conway: The Working Self John Burnside: A Science of Belonging: Poetry as Ecology John Burnside, introduced by R. M. M. Crawford: Steinar undir Steinahlithum Simon Armitage: Modelling the Universe: Poetry, Science, and the Art of Metaphor John Glenday, introduced by Eric Priest: Circadian Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Astronomy and Poetry Sarah Maguire, introduced by Norman MacLeod: A Fistful of Foraminifera Adalaide Morris: The Act of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Poetry of Jorie Graham and Leslie Scalapino Paul Muldoon, introduced by Warren S. Warren: Once I Looked into Your Eyes Drew Milne: The Art of Wit and the Cambridge Science Park David Kinloch, introduced by Alison Gurney: The Organ Bath Kay Redfield Jamison: Contemporary Psychology and Contemporary Poetry: Perspectives on Mood Disorders Gillian Beer: AfterwordReviewsEngaging essays studded with wit and humor an entertaining and illuminating volume. --Diane Ackerman, Science<br> <br> Engaging essays studded with wit and humor an entertaining and illuminating volume. --Diane Ackerman, Science<p><br> Author InformationRobert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews. His Selected Poems was published by Cape in 2005, and his critical books include The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s (OUP, 2001). He recently directed an international project sponsored by the Wellcome Trust which brought together poets and scientists. He is now writing The Penguin History of Scottish Literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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