About
A place to read, learn, and exchange ideas around Scientism Poetry.
Purpose and beginnings
Scientism Poetry explores how scientific philosophy, theory, and method enter poetic perception, language, and feeling, and how scientific structure can become a source of form. This website connects theory, poems, and publications so that readers can move between understanding and experience.
Quantum developed this practice through longstanding scientific study, teaching, and reading poetry. An Introduction to Scientism Poetry established an initial framework; writing and revising Schrödinger’s Cat deepened the account of scientific presence and the relationship between structure and form.
The existing books and poems provide a starting point. Readers from different backgrounds are welcome, with room for more writers and conversations as the project develops.
Quantum
Poet. Educator. An explorer of the meeting between scientific thought and poetic creation.
Based in Canada
An educator based in Canada and a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, he brings longstanding interests in poetry and physics into his writing. He also gives talks on quantum mechanics and its history.
His father studied physics and wrote classical Chinese poetry. His own studies in atomic and molecular physics, work in science and technology education, and reading of Chinese and Western poetry gradually came together in his creative practice.
As an advocate of Scientism Poetry, he develops its theoretical framework and methods of composition. His writing explores how scientific philosophy, theory, method, and structure can contribute to poetic language, form, imagination, and feeling.