Introduction / Philip Coleman
Chaucer, technology and the rise of science fiction in English /Helen Conrad-O'Briain
Pocketful of death : Horology and literature in Renaissance England /John Scattergood
Bodies of knowledge and knowledge of the body in sixteenth-century literature /Amanda Piesse
Broken machines and tainted minds : mental health and Hamlet /Andrew J. Power
Hippopotamus prince ; or, The perils of visiting England in 1850 /Kate Hebblethwaite
Edgar Allan Poe and the orang-utan /Stephen Matterson
H.G. Wells and the imagination of disaster /Darryl Jones
Surrealism, psychiatry, and the science of the irrational /Benjamin Keatinge
Logic in literature : bilogic strands in the poems of Louis MacNeice /Ross Skelton
"I'm an experiment : reflections on science in American short fiction /Philip Coleman
Can poetry be scientific? /Peter Middleton
Science and poetry : not so different? /Iggy McGovern
Wandering wood /Randolph Healy
Matter 15 : water and air words evaporate /Meredith Quartermain
Technē /Harry Clifton
Slow drag /Allen Fisher
Snow /Maurice Scully
From C++ /Dylan Harris
dorade /Kit Fryatt.
On literature and science : essays, reflections, provocations. ISBN 9781846820717. Published by Four Courts Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.