Podcast review – Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams
Listening time: 15 minutes. It’s about a quarter of a century since I first read this moving...
Upirnaagiit
An Eskimo term for early Western visitors. As ships came in the spring the better to explore and exploit to...
Time as landscape
How many of us live day to day doling out time fretfully! I liked this alternative, easy, generous, striding engagement...
Light-poor desert
Elsewhere I have highlighted Lopez’s use of desert images in an Arctic context. Here it’s used to refer to a...
Ice-crushed
In this description of a 250 ton ship being crushed by the unforgiving shift and grind of pack ice, you...
Deep-keeled ice
An arresting image of ice grounding like a boat’s hull scraping a shallow sea-floor.
‘… the sound of deep-keeled ice...
Time in two dimensions
A striking metaphor for time hovering or collapsing, in two versions of a bird, alive and flying, or keeling and...
Dish-shaped paws
Lopez writes of the animals he encounters in the Arctic with great respect and sensitivity, quietly questioning the distances of...
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