A Responsibility to Awe - Bernard O'Donoghue Publication Date:27/09/2018Rebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic. A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having contracted terminal cancer, she confronted her early death. Rebecca Elson was an astronomer; her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable.
he introduces her to his boss
with Azaceta commanding two very different moods across the issue
' Netgalley reviewer
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who split with her long-term girlfriend in the aftermath of Rolf's death
these poems-all also forms of experimental scholarship-interrogate
When he spots three familiar faces at the funeral
who have ended up at the center of this conflict through either circumstance or manipulation
a couple discovers a museum that displays mementos of broken relationships
who craves the power and possibilities the diamond holds
the relationships between the troops come under strain
a darkly wondrous book that's packed with spooky crochet patterns