A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Louis De Paor She has opened up for

She has opened up for him her own soul-landscape with its peculiar shapes and intense colours

and whose artistry reveals the riches and ruins of our plundered hearts

a live or latent connection that can be activated at any time

weather changes

especially Africa and India’ – Peter Forbes

A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Louis De Paor She has opened up forRebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having contracted terminal cancer, she confronted her early death. Rebecca Elson was an astronomer; her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable.