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Brewer’s Trace
The bottle-skinholds morethan grain and time –a tracedrawn from taprootsand spooled into the washof kettle-mistand steel-skin vats.
Jun 6, 2025
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Sam Illingworth
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Sam is a Professor in Creative Pedagogies. His research is concerned with trying to engage and empower people with science, especially those from under-served communities. He writes science poems to try and communicate some of the beautiful and important scientific research that is being done on a daily basis, all across the world.
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Proxy Measures
What glints is not always clean – a record polished with elsewhere’s soot. A city clears its throat of residue, while the smoke threads out on freighter routes, into lungs that do not vote for policy or promise.
May 29, 2025
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Inheritance Pattern
It begins where the ledger-skin thins and settles unasked, into fields that never drew down ink.
May 22, 2025
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Disposition: The Poetry of Science
Not the ballot, but what gathers in their place – how a glance holds or drops when the sirens pass.
May 15, 2025
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Refusal Archive
What slips is not the needle but the gap left when it does not arrive – a hollowing measured in missing.
May 9, 2025
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Ash Weight: The Poetry of Science
What stays is not the flame – but what it leaves when breath fails to filter what drifts.
May 1, 2025
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Drying the Spine
What slipped was not a flood – no clean edge or single rupture – but a drawn-down thread, sucked from the grip of root-treads and clay-cradle.
Apr 24, 2025
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Crowsight
A notch in the sky’s lattice – six shapes pause while one turns away. It does not take a name to know what fits, what leans too far from the bone-script of edge-meet and mirror-mark.
Apr 24, 2025
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A Bitter Leaf Against the Fire
Between bone’s turningand the bright scaldof unseen hands,something thins – a thread unwound,pulled from withinbefore it can root.
Apr 18, 2025
Bloggers
The Cost of Crypto
In a flat field where nothing grows but wires, the hum of effort sinks into the soil.
Apr 18, 2025
Science Poems
Truing the Sun
Many insects navigate using the sun, adjusting for time, season, and place. They may do so through brain waves and simple maths, revealing nature’s elegant solutions.
Apr 3, 2025
Science Poems
Where Resistance Grows
Jellyfish blooms fuel bacterial growth, increasing antimicrobial resistance gene spread – a risk to ocean and human health.
Mar 20, 2025
Science Poems
Held in the Blood
Violence alters DNA across generations, with trauma-linked genetic changes in Syrian refugees showing inherited effects and prenatal exposure accelerating ageing.
Mar 13, 2025
Science Poems
Greening the Fairway
Golf courses occupy more land than renewable energy – repurposing them could boost solar and wind capacity.
Mar 6, 2025