Thought that poetry and science don’t go together? Think again. This book, first released in 1997, has earned high critical acclaim from poets and scientists alike, offering literary pleasures integrated with insights into key scientific issues. The late Ted Hughes, British poet laureate, ‘I have never read anything quite like these poems… so compact and full of surprises’. James Lovelock, renowned scientist and environmentalist, called it ‘A wonderful book… a companion that I will keep by me for inspiration’. The list of thumbs up also includes the late Claude Lévi-Strauss, considered the father of modern anthropology, as well as famous science-writers Nick Herbert, the late Martin Gardner, and Margaret Wertheim, who discusses the book’s content in her bestseller Physics on the Fringe.