A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Forward prizes boundaries – through physical dislocation

boundaries – through physical dislocation

' – Adam Thorpe

‘The pleasure I have gained from new Scottish genius William Letford’s poems

and another of a lost self

The question of this contested

A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Forward prizes boundaries – through physical dislocationRebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having contracted terminal cancer, she confronted her early death. Rebecca Elson was an astronomer; her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable.