Poetry

  • Mostly travel writing by and about western women artists and scientists.
  • Not at all comprehensive for the Arctic, especially by and about native circumpolar peoples
Poetry
Pole Year Title Author
S 1982 To An Antarctic Traveller Katha Pollit (poem, in her book Antarctic Traveller)
S 1990 Antarctica Body Vivian Darroch-Lozowski (poems)
S 1990 The Heart Balloon Robin Morgan (in Upstairs in the Garden, Poems Selected and New)
S 1991 The White Lantern: Poems of Antarctica Diane Ackerman (in Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems)
S 2000 Antarctica Patti Sirens (in her book Antarctica)
S 2001 Antarctica Caroline Caddy (Australian poet who visited Antarctica)
S 2010 Approaching Ice Elizabeth Bradfield (book of poems on polar history. More info here )
S 2012 Banjo Samantha Wynne Rhydderch (Poems on Antarctic explorers)
S 2019 Toward Antarctica Elizabeth Bradfield (More info here )