The poems in Nancy Campbell's first collection transport the reader
to the frozen shores of Greenland. The Arctic has long been a place
of encounters, and Disko Bay is a meeting point for whalers and
missionaries, scientists and shamans. We hear the stories of those
living on the ice edge in former times: hunters, explorers and
settlers, and the legendary leader Qujaavaarssuk. These poems
relate the struggle for existence in the harsh polar environment,
and address tensions between modern life and traditional ways of
subsistence. As the environment begins to change, hunters grow
hungry and their languages are lost. In the final sequence,
Jutland, we reach the northern fringes of Europe, where shifting
waterlines bear witness to the disappearing arctic ice.
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