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The cover of Star Gate shows Jupiter with its satellites Io
and Europa, as photographed by Voyager 1 in February 1979. Voyager 1,
a robotic space probe, was launched in September 1977 and (as of April
2009) is still operational.
The colophon notes that the book was "published in an edition of
600 ordinary copies and 50 numbered copies, signed by the poet",
and that the poems 'Era', 'The Clone Poem', and the sequence 'The Moons
of Jupiter' had not been previously published.
"In Star Gate the poet's imagination takes a parabolic path from
a humorous Glasgow instamatic of the real/reel world of 1973 to a poignant
elegy set at a future stage of manned exploration of Jupiter's moons,
but tugged earthwards by the gravity of one explorer's memories of a
Lanarkshire funeral of 1978. En route the collection takes in many new
reaches and dimensions – from particle theory to higher life forms
of the constellation Virgo – sending us back to its holograms
of the heart in grief and hope."
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Star Gate: Science Fiction Poems
 1970s
The cover of Star Gate shows Jupiter with its satellites
Io and Europa, as photographed by Voyager 1 in February 1979. Voyager
1, a robotic space probe, was launched in September 1977 and (as of April
2009) is still operational. /More
/Related resources
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Published
by the Scottish
Poetry Library. A registered charity (No. SCO23311)
1970s