From an entry of 1700 poems, Dr Moore’s poem “Meteorites”, according to the judge, Patrick Cotter, “manages to pack substantial detail in imagery and subject matter into four tight quatrains. Ostensibly it is about observing a cosmological phenomenon in a domestic setting but it is also about the process of human thought, about the productive distractions of an inquiring mind and its capacity to draw comparisons between disparate entities – the very process involved in the composition of a good poem”, he said.

The countries which supplied the most entrants were Ireland (204) the USA (170) the UK (96) Canada (20) Australia (15) France (13) India (9).

Tom Moore is a veterinary surgeon who pursued PhD and postdoctoral studies in London and Cambridge, UK, before returning to Ireland and the Department of Biochemistry, UCC in 2000. His major research interests are in the areas of evolutionary and developmental genetics underpinning the physiological and psychological relationship between the mother and the developing embryo and child. He is the co-originator of an influential theory of Genetic Conflict which explains important aspects of the genetic control of embryonic and childhood development. He teaches medical and developmental genetics to UCC Science students.

Picture:  Dr Tom Moore

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