About the Book…
About the Author…
Nancy Campbell is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work has engaged with the polar environment since a winter spent as Artist in Residence at the most northern museum in the world on Upernavik in Greenland in 2010. Her books include Fifty Words for Snow, a Waterstones Book of the Month, her memoir Thunderstone: Finding Shelter from the Storm and The Library of Ice: Readings in a Cold Climate. She was appointed Canal Laureate in 2018, writing poems for installation across the UK waterways from London Docklands to the River Severn, and received the Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society in 2020. She lives in a van outside Oxford.