Original collection of 27 Antarctic poems and corresponding photography chronicling a contemporary sailboat journey to the Antarctic Peninsula.

Hardcover:
100 copies in print. Individually signed and numbered by the author.

Paperback:
Large volume orders accepted.

Startling imagery and precise concrete and sensory detail create an alien beauty on the page and the absence of the first person adds to the mystery. I don’t know who is speaking in the poems and enjoyed not knowing; the reader can put themselves into the landscape and the careful use of language allows the environment to be fully realised. There is a sense of danger, of risk, throughout the collection and the tension it creates is subtly handled.
-Dr. Angela France

This collection is a focused and coherent body of poems that offers an exploration, or re-exploration of a continent often considered to be empty, barren and blank. The poems draw attention to the beauty and life of the place through being able to focus down onto the individual organism or small detail of the place. The images are detailed and well-wrought and the author has worked hard for precision in the poems, not only in terms of the physical detail but in terms of the emotional or psychological valences that they project, sometimes muted and quiet, at other times able to project scale and power. The voice doesn’t always depend on the visual either; touch, taste, proprioception and the aural are also brought to bear.
-Dr. Nigel McLaughlin