Peter Forbes explores how poetry and science can mutually inspire.
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Peter Forbes is a science writer and former editor of Poetry Review. The Gecko's Foot: Engineering New Materials from Nature will be published by Fourth Estate in August.
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Forbes, P. Poetry and science: greatness in little. Nature 434, 320–323 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/434320a
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