Origins : The Cosmos in Verse

There raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo,A manic dance – a rumpus to arouseThe universe: of Higgs and W,Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus…For centuries poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows.Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and, before turning to the arts, Keats was a doctor.Meanwhile, scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell moonlighted as poets, composing verse between experiments and equations. Following in this tradition, theoretical physicist Joseph Conlon spins a dazzling intergalactic epic.Drawing on his scientific expertise, Conlon reveals the origins of our universe through two long-form poems – ‘Elements’ and ‘Galaxies’.Journeying from the Big Bang to the edges of our ever-expanding cosmos, Origins offers a delightful and revelatory adventure through contemporary physics.