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Icon Books is collaborating with the Camden School for Girls to create a book of "sciku" - haiku written about science.
Students at the comprehensive school, near the publisher's north London office, will write the 400 poems, which will be collected together in a volume called Sciku: The Wonder of Science - in Haiku!, planned for release in November 2014 as a £6.99 paperback and e-book.
All the royalties from sales of the book will go towards the school, to help it modernise its science facilities.
The project is being led by Simon Flynn, the school's chemistry teacher, previously m.d. at Icon and the author of The Science Magpie (Icon).
Examples of the poems in the book include Gravity:
An attractive force
Between all objects with mass
Just like you and me
Icon's editorial director Duncan Heath, commissioning editor for the project, said: "Judging by some of the first haiku we’ve seen from the girls, this will be a collection to inform and educate but most definitely to entertain as well. Though the poems are all based on sound science, there’s an undercurrent of wry humour in many of them. This book will make a fabulous Christmas gift."
Elizabeth Kitcatt, headteacher of Camden School for Girls, said: "This is such an exciting opportunity for the girls to work on an incredibly creative cross-curricular project. I know they'll have fun rising to the challenge and it's a fantastic way for them to contribute towards building the school's next generation science labs."