Julia Bird (Poetry School Staff)Earlier this year, the Poetry School collaborated with the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge on a series of poetry workshops. Led by Lucy Hamilton and Lucy Sheerman, students explored the museum’s exhibits, research and artefacts in search of inspiration for new work.
Via the first of a new series of ‘CAMPUS Pamphlets’ we’re delighted to share the results. Here are poems of glaciers, frozen fur mittens and penguin eggs, underscored with the bravery and desperation of the early polar explorers.
I love Jean Hall’s poems.
With many thanks to Julia Bird for creating this flicky book.
Ah, it was joint effort between me and @willbarrett ! I did the talking to poets bit, he did the making it all work bit …
Many thanks to @willbarrett, too, in that case.
Incidentally, did you know that the folk at RSPB Lakenheath Fen have just recreated a pingo? Click on their RSPB Suffolk Facebook page to see a photo of it by David White (posted 7 August 2014). My prose poem, ‘Chattermarks’, includes reference to a pingo … other poems in the anthology may do so, too. Wikipedia (OK, not the most reliable source): ‘Some old pingo ruins can be found in Norfolk, England (in the Breckland) …’ News to me!
yes this is brilliant!