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Published to coincide with the 2009 worldwide celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth Darwin’s Microscope reflects the life and influence of Charles Darwin. Swain uses the microscopic ‘lens’ as a metaphor for viewing the world with secular wonder, revealing greater meaning in looking deeper – even to the cellular level. Ultimately contemplating love and loss, this new poet brings the Darwinian point of view into everyday life. Darwin’s Microscope shows brilliantly how science and poetry complement and enlighten each other, to the point where they become nearly inseparable. "A major theme of the collection is Swain’s relationship with Darwin, her fascination, her repulsion, her difficulty positioning herself as a biologist and Darwinian." Assent "This is beautiful stuff. I was left with the absolute conviction that, with young Kelley entering the field, both natural science and poetry are in good hands." Ann Drysdale, Envoi "She is a poet after my own heart; someone compelled to celebrate the arts and sciences." Dorothy Sutton, author of Startling Art: Darwin & Matisse "One poem cannily includes a extract from Emily Dickinson, and there is an elegy for a father told – with an admirably Dickinsonian 'slant' – through the mating habits of a sea turtle. Bravura!" Anna Woodford, Mslexia
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