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ArtCop21: Disko Bay at Enitharmon Press

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Time 18:30
Date 01/12/15
Price Free
  • Produced by ArtCop21
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  • Get ready for 'a beautiful debut from a deft, dangerous and dazzling new poet'.
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Book launch and reading: the poet Nancy Campbell will read from her book, set on the frozen shores of Greenland.

Nancy Campbell’s poems transport the reader to the frozen shores of Greenland. The Arctic has long been a place of encounters, and Disko Bay is a meeting point for whalers and missionaries, scientists and shamans. We hear the stories of those living on the ice edge in former times: hunters, explorers and settlers, and the legendary leader Qujaavaarssuk. These poems relate the struggle for existence in the harsh polar environment, and address tensions between modern life and traditional ways of subsistence. As the environment begins to change, hunters grow hungry and their languages are lost. In the final sequence, Jutland, we reach the northern fringes of Europe, where shifting waterlines bear witness to the disappearing arctic ice.

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