Do you find technical talk and scientific jargon sometimes feels like an alien language or scrambles your brain into mush? Do you sometimes feel creative writers are also speaking another language full of colourful flourishes, mixed metaphors and abstract concepts? Can the two be combined successfully? Scientific and artistic endeavours have always intertwined throughout our…
Tag: Poetry
Science Poetry Competition; the winning poem
Here is Meredi Ortega’s winning poem in the Australian Poetry Science Poetry Competition. The poem imagines the liner notes that might accompany the golden phonograph records attached to Voyagers 1 and 2 as they leave the Solar System and begin their travels into interstellar space. As Carl Sagan, one of the contributors to the Voyager project…
Science Poem of the Day: 18 August
Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths and chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Tricia Dearborn Making Pipettes Rolling the hollow rod above the bunsen, blue flame glowing orange where fire embraces glass, turning it in the fingertips watching for something almost ineffable, the particular shine that denotes…
Science Poem of the Day: 17 August
Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics and engineering poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Erica Jolly Sculpture at Questacon It looks like magic – children are turning a great stone sphere this way and that smoothly, easily. Girls and boys are moving this sunlit glistening ball floating above its…
Science Poem of the Day: 16 August
Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Margaret Owen Ruckert chocolate caramel squares when maths teachers find the answer to becoming interesting, they will follow their instincts instead of Pythagoras nose across to the Technically Food Department and elect a committee…
Science Poem of the Day: 15 August
Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Margaret Bradstock Eclipse If the eclipse is a total one, the Moon will pass through the umbra, or darkest part of the shadow, in about two hours. The rim of the known moon grew thinner…
Science Poem of the Day: 14 August
Today’s poem is from Law and Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Steve Evans Luminous Fruit Pigs bred with implanted jellyfish genes have noses that glow in the dark Giotto’s lemons had it, but all those fat balls of incandescence that loomed from his painted plate…
Science Poem of the Day: 13 August
Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Ron Pretty Christmas Concerto Light and clear day and so simple a goal – Robert D Fitzgerald Talking to Paul last evening, forking (with his turkey) stars down in front of me travelling faster than…
Science Poem of the Day: 12 August
Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Carol Jenkins Pollen Down-scale gene lifeboat, wind shifted silt, nose teaser, sneeze bearer, deciduous dust, anther emblem, furtive clinger, protein panicle, bee money, corbicula cruiser twitching yellow, gold-white and red dust I love the mode…
Science Poem of the Day: 11 August
Today’s poem is from Law and Impulse: maths and chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Mark O’Flynn The Allotropes of Tin [For Roy Tasker] From the sublime to the ridiculous there is only one step Napoleon Bonaparte After the retreat from Moscow, 1812 Unbeknowst to him it takes a…