Abstract
In 2008, when I published a collection of poems about polar exploration, I hadn’t yet been to either the Arctic or the Antarctic—although I’d been on ships around ice. But during 2011 and 2012, I worked as a naturalist on an ecotourism expedition ship in Antarctica. While there, I took photographs. I considered the impact and fact of at long last journeying to a place I’d been actively dreaming of for fifteen years. I found myself writing.
Now, those writings are taking shape as a collection of haibun titled Botched Pilgrimage. Three excerpts from the book are below.
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Poems include photographs by Bradfield.