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It\u2019s National Science Week in Australia. A few months ago The Poets\u2019 Union & The Australian Poetry Centre invited submissions for poems on the wide theme of \u2018poetry and science.\u2019 I was very pleased that my poem slater<\/em> was chosen for the anthology Earthly Matters<\/em> and my audio work Earth\u2019s Greatest Hits<\/em> will be played at the Science Made Marvellous<\/a> launches in Melbourne, Sydney and possibly Adelaide. slater<\/em> originally appeared in micromacro, <\/em>along with a number of other poems on the science\/ eco theme which has always interested me. It’s great to see an entire book of poems on such subjects as bacteria, pollen and stromatolites! The other poets are\u00a0Martin Langford, Faith de Savign\u00e9, Carol Jenkins, \u00a0Saskia Hewitt, Mike Cooper, Meredi Ortega, \u00a0Meg Mooney, \u00a0Annamaria Weldon, \u00a0John Bennett, \u00a0Martin Langford, \u00a0t.w.gee, Benjamin Dodds, Michael Sharkey, \u00a0P S Cottier, \u00a0P S Cottier, Liana Christensen \u00a0and Emily Ballou.<\/p>\n Earth\u2019s Greatest Hits<\/em> grew from my interest in the Radio Bubble after reading a number of articles most particularly \u201cRadio Bubble: alien couch potatoes? It\u2019s possible, thanks to escaping TV & radio signals\u201d<\/span><\/a> by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (which I accessed online but originally appeared in Natural History, Nov 2001.) The original piece I wrote was more an article for a magazine than a poem, but I wasn\u2019t sure where to send it. It sat on my laptop for a time until I started to play around with spacey sounds on Garageband and matched the sound effects and music loops to the audio. I sent it off to a couple of poetry publishers who weren\u2019t interested. Again it sat on my laptop unheard for a year until I read about the Poets\u2019 Union\u2019s Science Made Marvellous project. At last someone else liked it!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s National Science Week in Australia. A few months ago The Poets\u2019 Union & The Australian Poetry Centre invited submissions for poems on the wide theme of \u2018poetry and science.\u2019 I was very pleased that my poem slater was chosen … Continue reading \n
\nI\u2019d read years ago that these signals, while continually weakening, theoretically continue forever. It\u2019s incredible to consider that the electronic garbage we pump out every day may have an infinite life\u2026 I started to wonder what alien civilizations might think of us as seen through soaps and sit-coms.<\/p>\n![\"science-books-1-2-150x150\"](\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/science-books-1-2-150x150.jpg\" "\\"science-books-1-2-150x150\\"")
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