{"product_id":"heart-of-winter-9781999971823","title":"Heart of Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree years in the making, \u003cem\u003eHeart of Winter\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful and poignant series of found poems by Autumn Richardson, assembled from the notes written by ethnologist Knud Rasmussen and botanist Dr. Thorild Wulff during the \u003cem\u003eSecond Thule Expedition\u003c\/em\u003e - a journey charting a little-known area of the far north-western coast of Greenland, from April to September, 1917. Some of Rasmussen's journals were afterwards edited by himself, and published as \u003cem\u003eGreenland by the Polar Sea\u003c\/em\u003e in 1921. During this expedition they traversed a vast landscape, by foot and by sledge, travelling more than a 1000 kilometres. A large portion of their journey was spent crossing the perilous and desolate 'inland-ice', an earlier term for the Greenland Ice Sheet. Dr. Wulff sadly lost his life on the return journey, as did one other member of the expedition, Hendrik Olsen. Every dog they brought with them also perished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems are accompanied by a selection of Inuit songs, originally documented by Knud Rasmussen and published as \u003cem\u003eSnehyttens Sange\u003c\/em\u003e in 1930. Rasmussen's Danish versions are republished here alongside new English translations by Autumn Richardson. \u003cem\u003eHeart of Winter\u003c\/em\u003e is completed by an author's preface, nine botanical plates featuring Arctic flora, and a detailed index listing the plants recorded by Dr. Wulff in his Greenland diary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'The writings of Rasmussen, the Inuit songs, and the final notes of Dr. Wulff, share moments of life at its slimmest, its most immediate. Each recount life-threatening and life- sustaining experiences, and the endurance of incredible hardship, yet in their words there is also at times a euphoria; an awareness of the immense beauty surrounding them, and a recognition of the preciousness of each small life that they encounter.'\u003c\/em\u003e (from the author's preface)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichardson, Autumn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Autumn Richardson is a Canadian poet and publisher. Her work grants quiet attention to the natural world, filtered through a prism of ecology, botanical medicine, mythology and esoteric philosophy. Contemplating landscapes as diverse as the vast northern boreal forests of Canada, the otherworldly karstic plateaus of western Ireland, the arid mountainous regions of Spain, and the ecologically devastated uplands of northern England, she lifts the occult or unseen to the reader's attention. In 2009 she co-founded Corbel Stone Press - one of the UK's foremost small presses dedicated to writing about landscape and nature - with her husband, the UK artist Richard Skelton. Her poetry and translations have appeared in numerous literary journals, pamphlets, anthologies and exhibitions in Canada, the UK, and internationally.\"","brand":"Xylem Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50434080637202,"sku":"9781999971823","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0c255283-269a-425a-bf3a-a2f3babcef8b.jpg?v=1729593139","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/heart-of-winter-9781999971823","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}