The follow-up to his hugely popular debut, The King of Suburbia, Iggy McGovern's second collection of poems sees him walk the metrical line between a childhood in the religiously divided northern town of Coleraine and his present home in Dublin, en route taking in the wonders and absurdities of contemporary life in our "one island, two countries" and, increasingly, taking inspiration from his second life in science. Here are poems in which the northern Troubles begin to raise their head, in which the orb of the Child of Prague might be mistaken for a hand-grenade. And here too are poems from...

What mysterious forces bring Science and Poetry together? Why did William Hamilton, Tycho Brahe and Marie Curie all write verse? How is it that Omar Khayyam wrote a treatise on algebra and why was Percy Bysshe Shelley fascinated by chemistry? To the contrary, why did Mary Shelley dream up the tale of Frankenstein? Poets from all over Europe gather at each Euroscience Open Forum ESOF to consider the complex relationship between Science and Poetry. From their poems and from their debates, discover a fruitful dialogue between advanced research and the poetry of our times. Wth contributions from...