The Eyes of Isaac Newtown by Iggy McGovern Sarajevo Roses both in Europe and in

both in Europe and in America

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Published by Random House on 05

 Times Literary Supplement

A Silence You Can Carry stands as a searing debut collection from a startlingly brave new talent

The Eyes of Isaac Newtown by Iggy McGovern Sarajevo Roses both in Europe and inIn 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