The Calgary Star Talks to Liz Howard About Science and Poetry

Griffin Poetry Prize-winner Liz Howard talks to The Star Calgary about her residency at the University of Calgary: She is "hoping to use the bounty of time to complete a second collection of poems." More:

“The working title for the collection is Letters in a Bruised Cosmos and deals broadly with personal history. It’s largely autobiographical,” she said.

According to Howard, astrophysicists coined the term “bruised cosmos” after analyzing a heat map of the universe.

“They found that there were cold spots in the heat map of the universe and they interpreted these cold spots as bruises, as other universes pressing up against our known universe,” she said.

“The (poetry) collection will deal with alternate possibilities and the notion of intimacy, of getting close, of bruises, of marks, of scars.”

Readers will find scientific references throughout the poet’s work; before Howard became a writer, she started her career in science.

For more on how Howard's science background affected her work in poetry, head here.