Poems from Pennine Platform, Litmus, Rialto, Antiphon, etc, with lots about science. "For Professor Alison Smith" begins with a diagram of an organic molecule.
It's impersonal. I liked the title poem - a sonnet. Some of the poems depend too much on the content - I knew about the parasite effect mentioned in "The Enemy Within" so I got little from the poem. "The First Green Human" looks very like Flash/Micro-fiction to me, and in the company doesn't do enough.
2 poems are shaped. "Getting the Bones Right" atomises the words into syllables (10 per line), each column of syllables centred. Between columns 5 and 6, unbroken and in bold, are the words "one" to "fourteen". Here's a extract
As a boy, on ly eleven, once I dis cov ered a dead sonn et
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