The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National Book Show, 24th October 2006, brought to light the physicist and poet, Iggy McGovern, Associate Professor of Physics at Trinity College, Dublin. He had been in Australia talking to students and staff at Latrobe University in Victoria. He was lecturing about ‘Science and Poetry’. Iggy McGoverrn explained that science and poetry are not so different, insisting that there must be some common ground.
    Comparing the making of the poem and the doing of an experiment, he told his audience that you have to decide what you are going to do and there must be enthusiasm. Next, doing it, you must have discipline and be prepared to lose. But the Eureka moments, that we know from Archimedes’ story, for both scientist and poet are beautiful. One can be involved in both exercises.
    He also referred to Miroslav Holub’s essays in ‘The Dimension of the Present Moment’.
    Scientists know one another across the world. This is an international community. Iggy McGovern's collection of poems in The King of Suburbia, Dedalus Press, Dublin, 2005 takes us to the poet. In this collection 'Brief Reflections on Gravity' is in memoriam for Miroslav Holub. Poetry frees the scientist from the restrictions demanded by his profession. He and she can laugh, cry, reminisce, as Iggy McGovern does in 'The Junior Cert' and 'Summer School'.