The Eyes of Isaac Newtown by Iggy McGovern Sarajevo Roses disrupt the reader’s expectations of

disrupt the reader’s expectations of where they are heading

its scientific knowledge lightly worn

Katie Donovan

I find the balancing of word in relation to word attractively present in the light swift movement of Andrew Taylor’s new poetry

both in Europe and in America

The Eyes of Isaac Newtown by Iggy McGovern Sarajevo Roses disrupt the reader’s expectations ofIn his fourth collection of poems, poet & physicist Iggy McGovern lets art and science intermingle in poems that range from the domestic to the ekphrastic, from the celebratory to the elaboratory. With trademark formality he runs his eye over an array of themes, some familiar, some less so, allowing for both conversation and collision: An epistolary paean to fellow Ulsterman Seamus Heaney borrows a Latin quotation from a letter by Irish mathematician