June Palmer

Biography

June Palmer is a poet who also writes short stories and is working (slowly) on a novella. Poetry is the first love, which she came back to after letting life get in the way for far too long. June helps to run a community writing group in Stoke on Trent, and after publishing a book of poetry “The last Pictish man” she contributed to an anthology, and then had two poems accepted for “The Poetry of Staffordshire”. Short stories followed with two readings at the 6 x 6 poetry café. Recently June was one of the six winners in a national writing competition “Write Science” with her poem “Listening to Jupiter”, which was performed on Six Towns Radio and at the Wedgwood Institute. She is hoping to spawn a poetry pamphlet next year.

Samples

Listening to Jupiter Call it what you like The music, the language of the cosmos is ours The expanding universe, the supernova; red-shifting light from distant stars Does it matter if dark energy exists, filling the space between galactic islands; engimatic energy imagined but forever unseen Far-off galaxies bending space and time across the vast dimensions, the observable universe. Can we glimpse our past? Tweak gravity. Particles are good vibrations: music. An ensemble of invisible strings. Science may confuse it yet planets sing, and underlying unities of nature hear. I have listened to Jupiter; am sure of the music of the spheres. ©June Palmer April 2015 Music of the spheres is an ancient philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies - the Sun, Moon, and planets - as a form of "music" not usually thought to be literally audible, but a harmonic, mathematical or religious concept. The idea continued to appeal to thinkers about music until the end of the Renaissance, influencing scholars of many kinds, including humanists.

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