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Atmospheric Physicist vs Poetic Atmosphericist

You send sound signals into the atmosphere

and listen for how they return, distorted.

You measure turbulence – one of the last things

we’re willing to say is unsolvable.

Deciphering the data and gathering

inference is how you stay alive.

I send sound signals into the atmosphere

and listen for how they return, distorted.

I measure turbulence – one of the last things

we’re willing to say is unsolvable.

Gathering the data and deciphering

inference is how I stay alive.

With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Caoilinn Hughes aligns scientific and poetic venturing. In this striking debut collection she focuses on moments of discovery, from the first controlled nuclear reaction to the shape of an avalanche as witnessed from its catchment area. These are epiphanies with consequences.

The notion of the poet as alchemist is a familiar one, but Caoilinn Hughes gives it new and enormous energy. I find myself wondering how she knows so much about so many things; and then I notice how far her poems travel beyond their own footprints. On page after page, she offers transformation – turning facts into feeling, experience into knowledge, prose into poetry, science into art.

Bill Manhire

Hughes brings to the embers of the Irish lyric new breath, new music, new word hoards, reinvigorating that tradition. She spins news from her travels in the wide world and it feels like essential information. This collection is a flaring forth, an auspicious comet, signal of achievement and promise.

Paula Meehan

Avalanche
Gathering Evidence
The Transit of Venus
Pacific Rim
The Moon Should Be Turned
King of the Castle
This Is What Makes It Go Bang
Catechism
Rational Dress
On the Content of Brackets
Looting Roses
Vagabond Monologue
Snake Creeps through the Grass
The Shell Man
Somatic Cells
Impressions of Ireland
To the Elements
We Are Experiencing Delay
Two Roundelets
Every Body Continues In Its State Of Rest
Lucky
Marbles
Communion Afternoon
Cynophobia
Playing House
Dublin Can Be Heaven
Hames of a Haiku
Soldiers in the Battle for Hedonism
Atmospheric Physicist vs Poetic Atmosphericist
Estuary
Bruisewort
Bolivian Children
A Peruvian Blockade, According to Bolivia
Altitude
God Always Geometrises
Harmony of the Spheres
Airbowing in Second Violins
Watershed
Is It A Kind Of Bell Toll?
Legacy

Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose poetry collection Gathering Evidence (Carcanet, 2014) won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award and was a finalist for the Seamus Heaney Prize, the Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers' Week, the Royal Society of NZ Science Book Prize and the NZ Post Book ... read more

Awards won by Caoilinn Hughes Short-listed, 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards
(Gathering Evidence) Short-listed, 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection (Gathering Evidence) Winner, 2015 Shine/Strong Award (Gathering Evidence)

'Carcanet Press and Belfast women poets are a very happy combination at the moment, and Caoilinn Hughes promises to be as individual a voice as Sinead Morissey. Add to that a caustic wit, as evidenced on Pacific Rim, or a gift for characterisation in Vagabond Monologue -- 'I'llll tell you what makes poetry flow? Nice big bank notes to be writing poems on'. And so say all of us.'
The Belfast Telegraph
'Hughes brings to the embers of the Irish lyric new breath, new music, new word hoards, reinvigorating that tradition. She spins news from her travels in the wide world and it feels like essential information. This collection is a flaring forth, an auspicious comet, signal of achievement and promise.'
Paula Meehan 'The notion of the poet as alchemist is a familiar one, but Caoilinn Hughes gives it new and enormous energy. I find myself wondering how she knows so much about so many things; and then I notice how far her poems travel beyond their own footprints. On page after page, she offers transformation -- turning facts into feeling, experience into knowledge, prose into poetry, science into art.'
Bill Manhire

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Gathering Evidence Caoilinn Hughes RRP: GBP 9.95 Available eBook (EPUB) ISBN: 978 1 847772 81 7 Categories: 21st Century, First Collections, Irish, New Zealand, Women Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: February 2014 64 pages (print version) Publisher: Carcanet Press Also available in: Paperback, eBook (Kindle) Digital access available through Exact Editions Description Excerpt Author Contents Awards Reviews Atmospheric Physicist vs Poetic Atmosphericist You send sound signals into the atmosphere and listen for how they return, distorted. You measure turbulence – one of the last things we’re willing to say is unsolvable. Deciphering the data and gathering inference is how you stay alive. I send sound signals into the atmosphere and listen for how they return, distorted. I measure turbulence – one of the last things we’re willing to say is unsolvable. Gathering the data and deciphering inference is how I stay alive. With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Caoilinn Hughes aligns scientific and poetic venturing. In this striking debut collection she focuses on moments of discovery, from the first controlled nuclear reaction to the shape of an avalanche as witnessed from its catchment area. These are epiphanies with consequences. The notion of the poet as alchemist is a familiar one, but Caoilinn Hughes gives it new and enormous energy. I find myself wondering how she knows so much about so many things; and then I notice how far her poems travel beyond their own footprints. On page after page, she offers transformation – turning facts into feeling, experience into knowledge, prose into poetry, science into art. Bill Manhire Hughes brings to the embers of the Irish lyric new breath, new music, new word hoards, reinvigorating that tradition. She spins news from her travels in the wide world and it feels like essential information. This collection is a flaring forth, an auspicious comet, signal of achievement and promise. Paula Meehan Avalanche Gathering Evidence The Transit of Venus Pacific Rim The Moon Should Be Turned King of the Castle This Is What Makes It Go Bang Catechism Rational Dress On the Content of Brackets Looting Roses Vagabond Monologue Snake Creeps through the Grass The Shell Man Somatic Cells Impressions of Ireland To the Elements We Are Experiencing Delay Two Roundelets Every Body Continues In Its State Of Rest Lucky Marbles Communion Afternoon Cynophobia Playing House Dublin Can Be Heaven Hames of a Haiku Soldiers in the Battle for Hedonism Atmospheric Physicist vs Poetic Atmosphericist Estuary Bruisewort Bolivian Children A Peruvian Blockade, According to Bolivia Altitude God Always Geometrises Harmony of the Spheres Airbowing in Second Violins Watershed Is It A Kind Of Bell Toll? Legacy Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose poetry collection Gathering Evidence (Carcanet, 2014) won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award and was a finalist for the Seamus Heaney Prize, the Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers' Week, the Royal Society of NZ Science Book Prize and the NZ Post Book ... read more Awards won by Caoilinn Hughes Short-listed, 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards (Gathering Evidence) Short-listed, 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection (Gathering Evidence) Winner, 2015 Shine/Strong Award (Gathering Evidence) 'Carcanet Press and Belfast women poets are a very happy combination at the moment, and Caoilinn Hughes promises to be as individual a voice as Sinead Morissey. Add to that a caustic wit, as evidenced on Pacific Rim, or a gift for characterisation in Vagabond Monologue -- 'I'llll tell you what makes poetry flow? Nice big bank notes to be writing poems on'. And so say all of us.' The Belfast Telegraph 'Hughes brings to the embers of the Irish lyric new breath, new music, new word hoards, reinvigorating that tradition. She spins news from her travels in the wide world and it feels like essential information. This collection is a flaring forth, an auspicious comet, signal of achievement and promise.' Paula Meehan 'The notion of the poet as alchemist is a familiar one, but Caoilinn Hughes gives it new and enormous energy. I find myself wondering how she knows so much about so many things; and then I notice how far her poems travel beyond their own footprints. On page after page, she offers transformation -- turning facts into feeling, experience into knowledge, prose into poetry, science into art.' Bill Manhire	Share this... 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