Science poetry

Matthew Tierney - Coach House Poetry Soiree 09

Length: 8:37

Matthew Tierney reads from The Hayflick Limit at the Coach House Poetry Soiree on Sunday, March 22, 2009. Recorded live in Toronto at Bar Italia.

The Hayflick Limit earns four stars from Eye Weekly

By Brian Joseph Davis
Eye Weekly
May 20 2009

In The Hayflick Limit (****), Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad boy scientist. His lines manage to blur the border between nomenclature and everyday insight, even telling a full story or two. 'The day after his wife left him,' Tierney writes, 'Charles found a bucket of antimatter / in the basement.

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