Abstract
'The Nucleobases' is a modular, acrostic poem, written according to a burdensome constraint, in which the molecular structure of the nucleotides in DNA determines not only the selected lexicons (which, in this case, consist only of nine-letter words), but also their arrangement in the line. Each poem maps out a molecule, while conveying a pastoral sentence about the bees (doing so in honour of Virgil, the first of all poets to have a line of poetry enciphered into the genome of an organism.).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 21-26 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Writing in Creative Practice |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Sep 2014 |