Space

A stellar collection of poems about space celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. The perfect gift for stargazers young and old, this beautiful poetry collection is illustrated with photographs from the Royal Observatory Greenwich collection. Filled with classic poems from the likes of Homer, William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman, right up to the present day with brand-new specially commissioned poetry from Nikita Gill, Brian Patten, Nicola Davies, Dom Conlon and David Harmer. These poets have been looking to the stars and writing about space, astronomy and astronomers, touching on our constantly evolving understanding of the universe, planets, stars and space phenomena.