A review by jayme
Laboratorio: Poems from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory by Simon Barraclough
4.0
So this is what you get when a poet spends a year at a space laboratory coaxing poetry out of scientists. An answer to a question I didn't even know I needed.
You can tell most of these poems are not written by poets, but that's part of the charm. The result of this experiment = an adorably eclectic collection, a nerdy ode to space.
I think my favourite was A Guide to the Solar System for Needle Crafters by Julia Gaudelli:
"Use a bodkin and fine silk thread to create two tiny pom-poms
for the geriatric giants
that dawdle at the periphery
of our knowledge:
vapid whiffs of blue-green
nonsense."
The authors also read one of their collaborative poems here: www.soundcloud.com/simonbarraclough/observatoratorio
You can tell most of these poems are not written by poets, but that's part of the charm. The result of this experiment = an adorably eclectic collection, a nerdy ode to space.
I think my favourite was A Guide to the Solar System for Needle Crafters by Julia Gaudelli:
"Use a bodkin and fine silk thread to create two tiny pom-poms
for the geriatric giants
that dawdle at the periphery
of our knowledge:
vapid whiffs of blue-green
nonsense."
The authors also read one of their collaborative poems here: www.soundcloud.com/simonbarraclough/observatoratorio