Disko Bay

This collection surveys the culture of arctic Greenland from prehistory to the present, with a focus on the hardships experienced by indigenous communities under colonial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The poems address the tensions between modern life and traditional means of subsistence in the Arctic, and explore themes of cross-cultural communication, cultural and species extinction, landscape and climate change. Many of the poems use forms that are strongly linked to oral performance such as ballads and pantoums.

Nancy Campbell is a writer and artist with a strong interest in the polar regions. She has conducted residencies at ecological and research institutions in Iceland, Denmark and the US, and is a Hawthornden Fellow. In the UK, Nancy has been Writer in Residence for Words Across Northumberland (2013) and Visual and Performing Artist in Residence at the University of Oxford (2013-2014). Her books include The Night Hunter, Tikilluarit and How To Say ‘I Love You’ In Greenlandic, which received the Birgit Skiöld Award; her translations from Greenlandic have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.