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"'Brilliant, ""restructuring the known existing facts"", to make this admirable, entertaining, attractive account of the origin of the Universe.' —Jocelyn Bell Burnell 'Joe Conlon is a marvel. His subject – the origin of the universe and our efforts to comprehend it – is vaster and stranger than anything in English poetry. But these fizzy, nonchalantly rhymed, eminently readable poems are also a masterclass in simile. Rhyming ""fun"" with ""Eddington"" and comparing the expansion of space to a sourdough starter, ""Elements"" and ""Galaxies"" will tell you about the structure of a hydrogen atom, various intriguing characters in the history of modern physics, and why galaxies’ quantum origins (""rough seas of storm-tossed noise"") might resemble Twitter.' —Hannah Sullivan, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning author of Three Poems"

"'Brilliant, ""restructuring the known existing facts"", to make this admirable, entertaining, attractive account of the origin of the Universe.' —Jocelyn Bell Burnell"

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Joseph Conlon is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College. His research spans particle physics, string theory, cosmology and astrophysics. He is the author of Why String Theory?, a Physics World Book of the Year in 2016, and has authored over seventy scientific papers.

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