Origins: The Cosmos in Verse by Joseph Conlon wales or a Punch and Judy

or a Punch and Judy still wielding weapons

celebrating the lives and struggle of one of India’s most marginalised groups

These serial prose poems explore memory

In a spectrum of voices across Scots and English

and opposition to

Origins: The Cosmos in Verse by Joseph Conlon wales or a Punch and JudyThere raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo, A manic dance a rumpus to arouse The universe: of Higgs and W, Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus For centuries poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and, before turning to the arts, Keats was a doctor. Meanwhile, scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell moonlighted as poets, composing verse