section_path: Genres/Speculative poetry
section_name: Speculative poetry
paragraph_text: Speculative poetry
  
  Speculative poetry, also known as fantastic poetry (of which weird or macabre poetry is a major sub-classification), is a poetic genre which deals thematically with subjects which are "beyond reality", whether via extrapolation as in science fiction or via weird and horrific themes as in horror fiction. Such poetry appears regularly in modern science fiction and horror fiction magazines.
  
  Edgar Allan Poe is sometimes seen as the "father of speculative poetry". Poe's most remarkable achievement in the genre was his anticipation, by three-quarters of a century, of the Big Bang theory of the universe 's origin, in his then much-derided 1848 essay (which, due to its very speculative nature, he termed a " prose poem "), Eureka: A Prose Poem.