Reviews

  • Sciku: The Wonder of Science in Haiku – Book Review

    I’ve told the origin story of The Sciku Project often enough that I’m not going to repeat myself here, except to say that the idea sprung from a particularly tedious commute one day and by the time I’d arrived home I had the whole thing roughly mapped out in my head. Of course, I didn’t…

  • Science Communication Through Poetry by Sam Illingworth – Book Review

    With the release of his book Science Communication Through Poetry, Dr. Sam Illingworth, Associate Professor in Academic Practice at Edinburgh Napier University, presents a guide to all things science poetry. Read on for The Sciku Project’s review! Reflections and wishes I didn’t really know what I was doing when I started The Sciku Project. For…

  • Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght – Book Review

    a fish owl on an icy river bank grabs more than fish by Jon Hare. Jonathan Slaght’s book “Owls of the Eastern Ice” is part natural history and part adventure story. The natural history focuses on Blakiston’s fish owl, the largest living species of owl. The adventure focuses on Dr. Slaght’s research on the Blakiston’s…

  • Elemental Haiku by Mary Soon Lee – Book Review

    Two thousand and seventeen was an auspicious year for scientific haiku. Chromatin Haiku began the year tweeting DNA and histone haiku in earnest (having posted the first tentative tweets in the last days of 2016). The Sciku Project started in May, collecting examples of science haiku (sciku) from across the research spectrum. On the 4th…