Canadian poet Don McKay published 'Paradoxides,' a collection of poems inspired by the discovery of a fossil of the same name in Newfoundland. The fossil, an ancient trilobite, serves as a window into 'deep time' and a vehicle for McKay to explore the relationship between science, poetry, and the act of perception. The collection is a meditation on how language can reach beyond logic to engage with the material world and prehistoric past.

McKay's 'Paradoxides' is a significant contemporary example of ecopoetry that engages directly with paleontology and geology. It shows how the fossil can still inspire poets to think about time, extinction, and humanity's place in the vast history of the planet. The book is a powerful testament to the continuing dialogue between the arts and sciences in the 21st century.