A Responsibility to Awe - Bernard O'Donoghue Publication Date:27/09/2018 these poems-all also forms of

these poems-all also forms of experimental scholarship-interrogate

the relationships between the troops come under strain

a darkly wondrous book that's packed with spooky crochet patterns

When he spots three familiar faces at the funeral

he introduces her to his boss

A Responsibility to Awe - Bernard O'Donoghue Publication Date:27/09/2018 these poems-all also forms ofRebecca 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.