Earlier this year I received an invitation to write two poems responding to the 50th anniversary of the moon landings. It was a lovely opportunity to explore the theme of Space. I choose to write two sonnets: the first a fairly conventional 14-liner ‘Neil and Buzz Two-step at Tranquility’, and the second an ‘exploded’ sonnet, complete with textual ‘space debris,’ celebrating the inspirational Fatoumata Kébé, a young black French astrophysicist and educator. Find out more about the anthology here