Synopsis
Uneasy Relations contains poems - mainly in haiku form - which play with ideas from computational mathematics. Non-specialists may choose to murmur them as zen-like meditations. For readers of a curious disposition, notes are provided that may be no less informative than those at the end of The Waste Land. The poems do not confine themselves narrowly to mathematical themes but touch upon myth and fable, astronomy, the arts of prediction and preventive maintenance, entomology, hill-walking, financial portfolio theory and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. There is also a hint of sexual politics. EQUALITY CONSTRAINTS To walk a tightrope is hard. So how much harder to walk several? Spiders manage it spinning sticky contour plots which aren't safety nets. Michael Bartholomew-Biggs has spent most of his working life as a mathematician at the University of Hertfordshire. His poetic ambitions arrived as part of a mid-life crisis and this, his fourth poetry chapbook, is an attempt to unite both halves of his brain.
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