A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Forward prizes and another of a lost

and another of a lost self

' – Adam Thorpe

country estates

’Dreamy

boundaries – through physical dislocation

A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Forward prizes and another of a lostRebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having contracted terminal cancer, she confronted her early death. Rebecca Elson was an astronomer; her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable.