Commissioned Works
- Poems to commemorate and celebrate
A unique gift that is both precious and affordable. Partnerships, retirement, anniversaries, weddings, thank you, birthdays, burials and any out-of-the-blue prompt that moves you to let someone know how special they are to you.
- Response
A poem that talks-back to your painting, sculpture or other art work or artefact.
- Commentary and archive
Capture the energy and process of your conference or workshop in a poem.
AFTERMATH
Poem Sequence: a sample from a collection of poems written in response to observations, conversations and reflections at a UK Maths Conference.
UNTENABLE
massively intuitive with
elegant conjectures and
beautiful exuberance we
are brilliant company
(projective symmetries could hold
the answer to a universe). imagine.
reassuredly objective, we know
mistakes matter: though sometimes
assumptions go unchallenged for
a while they will be found out
there is no room for opinion
there is not one Black
mind
here
IN/OUT DEVICES
(After Alan Turing, who invented the computer, and committed suicide after being forced to have oestrogen injections because he was gay/because of homophobia)
all an intelligent machine needs is programming
completely in keeping with what is pitched proper
for instance, let it not see self-similarity and compute love
INORDINATE
Poincares’ winning entry for the Acta Mathematica contained a critical error. When corrected this subsequently led to highly influential work on celestial mechanics.)
To describe the paths of three bodies
in mutual gravitational interaction one
needs a feel for error. I put this to you.
All flawlessness foreshortens us. Some
simple pose. Impossible to hold or solve
precisely. Prizefool! Truth lies riddled
with scars – ugly furrows – star-tethers
hauling sharpness into vision.
THE TELLER
I came here because certain
things are unknowable one
can never get to the end of never
pain knows its own infinities
counting the cost of
: the tongue as a lost digit
: the strings we attach
: the way things add up
things add up I hope one day to close my eyes
blankly and have nothing incalculable figure