A review by octavia_cade
Spelling the Hours: Poetry Celebrating the Forgotten Others of Science and Technology by R.B. Lemberg

4.0

Lovely little chapbook of poems that are specifically about science - often about scientists themselves, particularly those who have been historically marginalised in some way. Included as subjects, for instance, are Alan Turing and Lise Meitner, along with a number of lesser known scientists, many of whom I'm going to go and look up now. It's a short collection, only twelve poems (though some of these are fairly long) and I wish there was more of it because everything in here was well worth reading. It's taken some doing, but I think I've finally decided on my favourite: "noble, nobel" by na'amen, about three women who didn't win Nobel prizes. Mostly because I've written a novelette recently with the exact same premise and two of the same scientists, though where na'amen uses Jocelyn Bell Burnett I used Rosalind Franklin. Fascinating to come across something so similar and yet so different!