John Latham is a
research scientist, specializing in cloud formation. He’s received several
medals from the Royal Meteorological Society, founded the Atmospheric Physics
Research Group at the University of Manchester, and has served as a senior
research fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
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He is also
a poet and novelist. His latest poetry collection, From
Professor Murasaki’s Notebooks on the Effects of Lightning on the Human Body,
may win the prize for the most unusual poetry title. It’s a title with a
scientific sense; it almost sounds like the title of a research paper published
in Nature. And the first
few poems in the collection suggest a scientific theme – poems with titles about
lightning, the chemistry of fog, and the forms and qualities of ice.
But that’s
not where Latham goes. Where he does go is to the familiar territory of
relationships. But it’s a journey marked by a practiced eye, an intense gaze,
and a sensitive understanding.
To
continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
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