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    Quill to Quark: Passionate Poets Provocative Poems
    Quill to Quark: Passionate Poets Provocative Poems
    Quill to Quark: Passionate Poets Provocative Poems
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    Quill to Quark: Passionate Poets Provocative Poems

    By Etta Dunn

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    This is an anthology of poetry written by MLitt students of Glasgow University. As the title suggests , this anthology includes many styles of poetry - Shakespearean sonnets, narrative poems, political poetry, concrete poetry and poems formatted using computer software.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEtta Dunn
    Release dateJul 25, 2010
    ISBN9781370124510
    Quill to Quark: Passionate Poets Provocative Poems

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      Quill to Quark - Etta Dunn

      Copyright © Etta Dunn 2010

      The right of Etta Dunn to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      Copyright of poems resides with the individual poets.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without permission in writing from the publisher.

      ISBN:978-0-9556507-2-7

      Illustrations and cover design

      by

      Etta Dunn

      Published by

      Fleming Publications

      Glasgow

      Quill

      to

      Quark

      Passionate Poets

      Provocative Poems

      Edited

      by

      Etta Dunn

      Introduction

      Quill to Quark is an anthology of poetry by Glasgow University MLitt students. The submissions chosen are the best of the wide range of styles suggested by the title, i.e. everything from Shakespearean Sonnets to poems formatted using computer software such as QuarkXPress.

      The word ‘quark’ is a bridge between science and literature. The physicist Murray Gell-Mann decided to call the sub-atomic particles he had discovered ‘quarks’ after reading James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

      ‘In 1963, when I assigned the name quark to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been kwork. Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word quark in the phrase Three quarks for Muster Mark. Since quark (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with Mark, as well as bark

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