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Toxi geni City

producing poison is to unsettle a soul and then demand it to find an apex in cornerless countries. to rip its outline with uncaring,...

Backbone

So pleased to have one of poems (entitled (Backbone’) featured in the next issue of Marble (Broadsheet) - happy days! Please check out...

The icing

Holidays are the icing on the cake. The buttercream. Bad times in our lives swallow kindnesses. The hurting ice. Water droplets lose heat...

Reconfiguration in seven textures

My bloodline forms road markings as I walk through the village. Rough senses of rawness and rage and a rare resilience creep across my...

Pro verb/the proverbial

I’m pro verb. I’m pro noun. I’m for all the intricate beauties of language. Chemical synthesis is the other pea in the proverbial pod.

Poetry & chemistry as form

This free event should be fun! See https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-chemistry-as-form-tickets-151937716801

Overwater

Fun with anagrams (either side of the line): Overwater; this Cumbrian orb that stares avidly on fens — Broad, wet cherubs; my rather...

Fruit on ‘Spilling Cocoa’ blog

Please enjoy my poem ‘Fruit’ on the Spilling Cocoa over Martin Amis blog: https://www.spillingcocoa.com/fruit-by-stephen-wren/?fbclid=IwA...

Tell me something podcast

Really pleased to be included here (my reading of my poem Magnificent): https://anchor.fm/tell-me-something/episodes/Tell-Me-Something---...

Chocolate

I thought all the town would see my chocolate bar wrappers stuck to my bedroom windows. Proud adverts of innocence in a suburban safe...

Destruction of prostaglandins

A switch of hydroxyl groups then loss of water. All because of acid. Double bonds move. Switch two involves a base. Loss of enol protons...

Bridges Poetry event

So happy to be taking part in the 2021 Bridges Poetry event. Here is the virtual event reading page: https://www2.math.uconn.edu/~glaz/Ma...

Simulation and stimulation

Mum took me to the dome on Baker Street. The sky was like charcoal above my seat. The starry dots were copies from my books and Mum set...

The cinema closes

My short-lived joy ends, when the cinema closes and Superman wins. The Kiosk is shut. My hot dog is digesting. The cola is gone. A second...

A bacterial cell wall’s view of penicillin

I'm very pleased to announce that this new poem has been published in Issue 4 of Consilience: https://www.consilience-journal.com/issue-4...

Dipoles

Hi - This poem is a chemistry one that will form part of a new collection that I'm working on.. Dipoles Linus Pauling was a savvy fellow....

Blue stars

I'm so pleased that this poem was included in the new SciPo anthology (Angled by the Flood) which was launched last week. See here:...

Companions (part four)

Stephen Jay Gould says the companions live in distinct spheres, each with their own muscle. Value added from domains of teaching. Neither...

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