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Maths, myths, Mars! Hard science meets happy metaphor in a debut that asks how astronomy continues to define our lives.
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Table of Contents
Desert /3
Strange Days /6
Filament /7
Scan /8
Kingdom of Kush /9
Lake Nyasa /12
City /14
Vukovar /16
Pool /18
Goma /19
Valve /22
Spring /23
Harbour /25
Ocean /26
On Winter Nights /28
Cedar /29
Drinkers /30
Voices /32
Under the Volcano /33
Qom /34
Seville /36
Killers /37
Tsar Bomba /39
April /40
Living Water /41
Far From Here /43
Solitaire /44
Event Horizon /45
The Core /46
Eye 1 /47
Eye 2 /48
Experiment /49
Operation /50
Redaction /51
Banquet /52
Theories /53
Solar Sail /54
Theology /55
Patmos /57
About the author
Richard Norman lives in Halifax. He has recently published poetry in
The Malahat Review, The Puritan, and
CV2, among other Canadian journals. His first collection is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
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Maths, myths, Mars! Hard science meets happy metaphor in a debut that asks how astronomy continues to define our lives.
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"Weighty with metaphor.”—The Telegraph-Journal
