Philosophy
Questions of reality, knowledge, observation, and time become questions a poetic voice can inhabit.
A POETIC MOVEMENT
Scientism
Poetry
Scientism Poetry is an emerging poetic movement that integrates scientific philosophy, theory, and method into poetic creation, with scientific structure as a source of poetic form, to express the realities of the world and the mind.
THE UNIVERSE, IN VERSE01 — ∞
01 / THE APPROACH
Science enters the making of a poem.
Theory
Relations, models, and patterns offer new ways to perceive the world and human experience.
Method
Observation, comparison, inquiry, and revision become resources for composition.
Scientific structure can also shape rhythm, sequence, and spatial form. Each poem may draw on one or more scientific sources.
02 / THE BOOKS
From theory
to poetic practice.
A framework for creation. A collection of poems. Two complementary ways into Scientism Poetry by Quantum (Sean Tan).
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Promotional artwork for the Chinese editions.
03 / SELECTED POEMS
Three ways of seeing.
Schrödinger’s Cat
A cat’s familiar world opens into mortality, uncertainty, and the questions of a quantum thought experiment.
Blackberry
From a rooting plant to childhood memory and a keyboard, the poem moves between growth, recollection, and the pressure of expression.
Both and Neither
Two voices approach light through wave and particle imagery, then question the limits of those familiar names.
04 / THE AUTHOR
Quantum (Sean Tan)
An educator and poet based in Canada, bringing a longstanding engagement with physics into the possibilities of poetic language and form.
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