NEW ANTHOLOGY!

I'm excited to announce that "Making the Unseen, Seen" will be out in late June, 2025! Published by High Tide Publications, distributed by Ingram, available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, all fine booksellers, and on this website and internationally! Over 40 contributors from the United Kingdom, Australia, South America, the U.S. and North America, it is an ekphrastic collection of poetry, art and scientific thought that will amuse and delight you!

Some praise:

“These artworks and poems remind us that science does not hold a monopoly on thought or exploration. Instead, they show us how the sciences and the humanities can – and should – come together more often to help us make sense of a world that is both difficult and beautiful. Making the Unseen, Seen is a testament to the quiet power of collaboration, creativity, and care.”

~Sam Illingworth, Professor Sam Illingworth, Professor of Creative Pedagogies, Edinburgh Napier University, UK, Editor, Consilience, Author of A sonnet to science: Scientists and their poetry, The Poetry of Physics: From a Quark to a Quasar, and others

I find anthologies enthralling, and Making the Unseen Seen is no exception. Such works portray the uniqueness of each individual contributor, while displaying the undeniable thread that holds the work together, that of our common humanity. Yet, it is impossible to say, in a few words, what makes a particular collection of such variety most appealing! In “Prism’s Rainbow” by Marjie Gowdy, we read “…this clear quartz shows off her cloak / for me, her rounded edges hinting at further / beauty below.” Perhaps it is as good a quotation as any to exemplify the layered quality of the artistic expression and shared experience this book initiates. Every few pages is a renewed invitation to see what lies under that cloak of color and shape, and inside a word or a verse. Page after page, the back-and-forth motion from eye to ear and back again, is a constant invitation to a sensory and mindful journey, and to understanding that all art, all poetry is relationship. That is the most crucial lesson of all and bears the lovely byproduct of sheer enjoyment.

 ~Dr. Sofia M. Starnes, Virginia Poet Laureate Emerita, Author of The Consequence of Moonlight, Ten, Tendrils, Tenderness, among others, and editor of numerous anthologies.

Poets and scientists have often regarded each other as antagonists, one group representing the right side of the brain, the other the left side of the brain.  But in this collection, the poets have made peace with the scientists, and the results are refreshing.  Accompanied by attractive images of quilts, drawings, and watercolors, the poems in Making the Unseen, Seen address contemporary problems such as climate change and environmental ruin from a scientific perspective and with scientific language.  The poems are “ekphrastic” in the original sense of that word: they “speak out” about issues that need to be spoken about.  By doing so, they make the “unseen seen” and encourage us to make the world a better place.

~ Prof. Henry Hart, William & Mary, Virginia Poet Laureate Emeritus, (2019-2020) was a founding editor of Verse, an international poetry journal active 1984–2018. In 2010, he won the Carole Weinstein Prize for Poetry.