The Waking Glacier: A High Arctic Lyric
Autor Dianne Chisholmen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 sep 2026
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781772128758
ISBN-10: 1772128759
Pagini: 156
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada
ISBN-10: 1772128759
Pagini: 156
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada
Comentariile autorului
1 map, 13 colour photographs and 3 B&W photographs
Cuprins
- The Expedition
- Artists at Sea
- No Baggage
- Sail On, Antiguanauts
- Tall Ship Heterotopia
- Approaching the Ice
- Dahlbreen Glacier
- Breasting the Waves
- Holmiabreen, Vasahalvøya
- Berg Glacier, Looking Back
- Farthest North
- Flotsam and Jetsam, Nordkappbukta
- Geoglyphs and Erratics, Chermsideøya
- Riding Waves Round Down Wijdefjorden
- Isbjørn, Stubendorffbreen
- Donjek Glacier, Looking Back
- Escalator to the Interior, Mittag-Lefflerbreen
- Sailing Past Gråhuken at Midnight Under Full Moon
- Defrost Tundra, Reinsdyrflya
- Erikbreen, Hornbækpollen
- Porthole Peeps
- Go Brashly, Seligerbreen-Monacobreen
- Sermilik, Looking Back
- Virgohamna, Danskøya
- What Remains
- Kvitøya, White Island
- Bu
- Harbour Seals at Æøya
- Walruses at Old Blubbertown
- Smeerenburgbreen, Bjørnfjorden
- Down Time
- Diilerilaaq, Looking Back
- Nightboat
- Selvågen, Prins Karl Forland
- Doggo Hidalgo
- The Red Glacier (Esmarkbreen), Ymerbukta
- Apuseeq (Knud Rasmussen Glacier), Looking Back
- Gipsvika, Sassenfjorden
- Nord
- Pole Dancing
- Seed Vault, Last Stop
- Glacier Bay, Looking Ahead
- Notes
- Appendix 1 Translation of Norwegian Geographical Terms
- Appendix 2 Regulations Concerning the Cultural Heritage in Svalbard
- Acknowledgments
Recenzii
“A strikingly original and deeply immersive meditation on Arctic exploration, climate change, and the evolving meanings of place in a rapidly warming world.” Lisa E. Bloom, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics
“With awe and reverence for the natural environments of the north, Dianne Chisholm explores concerns with land, environment, climate change, creativity, and gender through a High Arctic expedition to Svalbard, Norway.” Kit Dobson, Field Notes on Listening
"These lyrical meditations on a journey through the High Arctic are thought-provoking and timely as our Atlantean civilization sails full steam ahead towards the rocks of climate chaos." Thomas Wharton, Icefields
"In rich crevasses of words, and the lush hush of photographs, Dianne Chisholm travels north, far north, to be alive and attuned to the huge presence of remote Norwegian glaciers. She queries their mysterious names and origins, and addresses them directly at times, as if recognizing, in them, their own sentience. Reading her, we awaken to a habitation with a non-human other that astounds." Erín Moure, Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry
"The Waking Glacier is an unusual blend of musical lyricism, a scholarly eye, a photographer's sense of presence and a story of earth unravelling. Chisholm writes a homiletic white noir, at once an elegy for earth and a celebration of love. This text is an urgent hagiography of naming and a beautiful confession of absence." Kristjana Gunnars,The Silence of Falling Snow
"To read this is to be enriched. The Waking Glacier is an exploration of 'north,' ice, artistic practice, and adventurous travel in one of the world's most remote and remarkable landscapes. Through images and words and the silences between them, Dianne Chisholm offers us a restless, playful-serious, tender lyric. Delightfully difficult to categorise, this book is written with deep knowledge, a spirit of curiosity and— most importantly—love. I've been waiting for a book as unique as this about Svalbard. Here it is!" Helen Mort, A Line Above the Sky
"This brilliant, genre-bending book is a welcome antidote to the usual Arctic exploration narratives: a queer journey that claims no new territory, conquers no extremes—and reveals ice as we’ve never encountered it before. Absolutely sublime." Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders
"The Waking Glacier is, at once, an immersive and impressionistic travelogue of a tall-ship voyage to the High Arctic, a meditation on a life-long fascination with glaciers, and a personal, poetic account of internal and external landscapes. In vivid, alluring fragments, Dianne Chisholm conveys us to a realm of shale, ice, and sea, still mostly inhospitable to human habitation, and also the fastest-warming area on the planet. Her lyric takes us to the edge of language’s capability to interpret and witness our rapidly changing world." Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries
"A lovely and poetic memoir of a journey to Arctic shores that few of us will ever know." Wade Davis, Beneath the Surface of Things
“With awe and reverence for the natural environments of the north, Dianne Chisholm explores concerns with land, environment, climate change, creativity, and gender through a High Arctic expedition to Svalbard, Norway.” Kit Dobson, Field Notes on Listening
"These lyrical meditations on a journey through the High Arctic are thought-provoking and timely as our Atlantean civilization sails full steam ahead towards the rocks of climate chaos." Thomas Wharton, Icefields
"In rich crevasses of words, and the lush hush of photographs, Dianne Chisholm travels north, far north, to be alive and attuned to the huge presence of remote Norwegian glaciers. She queries their mysterious names and origins, and addresses them directly at times, as if recognizing, in them, their own sentience. Reading her, we awaken to a habitation with a non-human other that astounds." Erín Moure, Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry
"The Waking Glacier is an unusual blend of musical lyricism, a scholarly eye, a photographer's sense of presence and a story of earth unravelling. Chisholm writes a homiletic white noir, at once an elegy for earth and a celebration of love. This text is an urgent hagiography of naming and a beautiful confession of absence." Kristjana Gunnars,The Silence of Falling Snow
"To read this is to be enriched. The Waking Glacier is an exploration of 'north,' ice, artistic practice, and adventurous travel in one of the world's most remote and remarkable landscapes. Through images and words and the silences between them, Dianne Chisholm offers us a restless, playful-serious, tender lyric. Delightfully difficult to categorise, this book is written with deep knowledge, a spirit of curiosity and— most importantly—love. I've been waiting for a book as unique as this about Svalbard. Here it is!" Helen Mort, A Line Above the Sky
"This brilliant, genre-bending book is a welcome antidote to the usual Arctic exploration narratives: a queer journey that claims no new territory, conquers no extremes—and reveals ice as we’ve never encountered it before. Absolutely sublime." Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders
"The Waking Glacier is, at once, an immersive and impressionistic travelogue of a tall-ship voyage to the High Arctic, a meditation on a life-long fascination with glaciers, and a personal, poetic account of internal and external landscapes. In vivid, alluring fragments, Dianne Chisholm conveys us to a realm of shale, ice, and sea, still mostly inhospitable to human habitation, and also the fastest-warming area on the planet. Her lyric takes us to the edge of language’s capability to interpret and witness our rapidly changing world." Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries
"A lovely and poetic memoir of a journey to Arctic shores that few of us will ever know." Wade Davis, Beneath the Surface of Things