tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66850586195741556182024-02-05T10:26:10.247+00:00Nancy CampbellNANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.comBlogger369125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-84559883244518620492022-06-25T12:06:00.004+01:002022-06-25T12:13:41.412+01:00ThunderstoneOut this summer! THUNDERSTONE is a tale of love, loss and vintage caravans.Excited to be back on tour with this memoir of the recent lockdown, and its aftermath in a 1984 Buccaneer caravan. I’ll be at Edinburgh International Book Festival and PoliNations Festival in Scotland this August, and Books on Tyne in November. More events and bookshop signings up and down the country are NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-42774425505677209692020-10-30T12:24:00.000+00:002020-10-30T12:24:07.966+00:00Fifty Words for SnowAfter a year of voyaging through dictionaries in search of snow stories from around the world, I'm over the moon to announce my new book Fifty Words for Snow published this week by Elliott & Thompson. Fifty Words for Snow covers the alphabet from avalanche (French) to zud (Mongolian). It is a compendium of worldwide winter words: from American Sign Language (via a story ofNANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-76928290867187573642019-04-19T09:59:00.003+01:002019-04-19T09:59:41.858+01:00Villa ConcordiaLast week I arrived at the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Germany where I will be based for the next eleven months as a Literature Fellow. The Künstlerhaus hosts a number of artists, writers and composers from Germany and one other country each year, with scholarships provided by the Free State of Bavaria. You can see below the warm welcome given to NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-57890421851294300462019-03-21T18:17:00.001+00:002019-03-21T18:17:51.947+00:00Rathbones Folio Prize
The Library of Ice has been longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019, open to all works of literature written in English and published in the UK. The Academy judges Kate Clanchy (chair), Chloe Aridjis and Owen Sheers nominated 20 books (pictured above) for the £30,000 prize, which will be announced on 20 May. Congratulations to my fellow nominees!
I'm very grateful to the NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-25147405109087285332019-02-02T15:05:00.002+00:002019-02-02T15:05:51.425+00:00Italian edition of 'The Library of Ice'
On 30 January the Italian publishing house Bompiani released La Biblioteca del Ghiaccio, a new translation of The Library of Ice by Andrea Asioli. Italian readers will be able to make discoveries about ice not only in the polar regions but also closer to home: for example, the book recounts the role of the weather on the Italian Front during World War I (or the Winter War) and the NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-53857002899550038072018-12-23T13:51:00.001+00:002018-12-23T13:56:06.137+00:00Winter Roses
Canal Wreath by Phil Speight
This year I was commissioned to write a winter poem for The Poetry Society. I decided to take as my theme the hard graft that goes into maintaining a narrowboat during the coldest part of the year, as well as a life aboard, in particular the restoration of the traditional 'roses and castles' decorations.
The poem appears on the reverse of cards (blank NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-66066324547206342452018-11-29T04:07:00.004+00:002019-02-04T22:03:14.878+00:00The Library of Ice: Reviews
It's one month since the publication of The Library of Ice, and I'm grateful that the book has received incredibly perceptive and positive reviews. My thanks to all the reviewers, and a special shout out to Patrick Barkham for selecting The Library of Ice as one of the Best Books of 2018 in the nature category in The Guardian. Here's a round up of reviews available NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-67581203565457719172018-10-29T07:08:00.002+00:002018-10-29T07:12:28.728+00:00The Library of Ice
The Library of Ice is published on 1 November. I'm delighted to be able to share its first review already (many thanks to Arabella Currie writing for Oxford Writers' House).
If you'd like to join me to celebrate ice and its many voices, look out for events happening around the country in November and December.
You can purchase a copy of The Library of Ice online, NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-66671033286650145742018-09-18T11:42:00.001+01:002018-09-18T11:43:05.252+01:00Advance copies of 'The Library of Ice"
Book bloggers, book reviewers and journalists are invited to request their advance copies of The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate via NetGalley. Available now!
NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-25444292651355229162018-09-16T11:50:00.002+01:002018-09-16T11:50:45.578+01:00Poetry on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
With Canal & River Trust staff and volunteers in Wigan
In July I spent a week travelling along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal - the UK's longest - by kayak, meeting people who live and work on the canal and gathering material for poems for the Canal Laureate project. Huge thanks to The Poetry Society, the Canal & River Trust, and the many individuals I met on the towpath for NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-84484996172045469032018-09-09T12:04:00.000+01:002018-09-09T12:04:57.938+01:00Borrowed Bookshelves 21
Arvon Foundation, Totleigh Barton, Devon.
NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-11235949915640249152018-08-06T19:52:00.003+01:002018-08-06T19:53:36.812+01:00Back to Nature? at Salon Berlin
I'm delighted to be returning to Germany next week to continue the summer's discussions on the theme of art in the anthropocene with an event at the Salon Berlin of the Museum Frieder Burda in partnership with the British Council. There'll be readings, a workshop, discussions with artists featured in the Back to Nature? exhibition - and pizza in the Clärchens Ballhaus. Full details and bookingNANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-5458159673867064802018-07-31T12:08:00.004+01:002018-07-31T12:10:20.958+01:00Borrowed Bookshelves 20
My paddle along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal began with a meal aboard Morning Mist, moored in Rodley, before reading a few poems between the acts of Alarum Theatre's performance of Idle Women of the Wartime Waterways. Kate Saffin, one half of Alarum Theatre, kindly let me take a picture of her bookshelf -- full of books used while researching the Idle Women's story.NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-10725429993754973792018-07-01T11:20:00.004+01:002018-07-01T11:20:52.810+01:00Borrowed Bookshelves 19
In celebration of this month's Tour de France
here's the single bookshelf at the Broken Spoke Bike Co-op, Oxford,
pleasant to browse while waiting for a spare tyre lever.
NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-51147902069499410002018-06-23T17:40:00.004+01:002018-06-23T17:40:40.416+01:00Borrowed Bookshelves 18
The Library at Stiftung Nantesbuch, Germany.
NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-21923562468222726762018-06-22T20:26:00.001+01:002018-06-22T20:26:29.773+01:00Two anthologies
I'm delighted to have poems in two anthologies published by The Emma Press this summer:
Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts, edited by Anja Konig and Liane Strauss and illustrated by Emma Wright (available here)
and In Transit: Poems of Travel, edited by Sarah Jackson and Tim Youngs (available here).
NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-81306888199229670182018-05-22T08:41:00.000+01:002018-05-27T18:20:24.828+01:00The Library of Ice - new publication
I'm delighted to announce that The Library of Ice, a memoir of my seven-year adventure in search of the world's disappearing ice, will be published this autumn by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster - and copies are now available to pre-order. Thank you to everyone who has accompanied me on these journeys, both in the Arctic and back home, especially those who assisted withNANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-36211052151711753352018-05-13T07:14:00.000+01:002018-05-27T17:39:47.921+01:00Waterlines
Phoenix rising from the canal, Oxfordshire
Since the beginning of the year I've been working on several Canal Laureate projects with The Poetry Society and the Canal & River Trust, and contributing a monthly blog to Waterlines.
One of the latest projects to reach completion is a new filmpoem, The Cut, created in collaboration with the Canadian artist Pierre Tremblay. The Cut was NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-23057310141220206912018-04-24T19:35:00.001+01:002018-04-24T19:35:16.247+01:00Upcoming Event: Oxford Poetry Library
I'm excited to be part of the birthday celebrations for the wonderful Oxford Poetry Library.
Come and join us on 11 May!
NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-81731263722667311562018-04-12T13:05:00.001+01:002018-04-12T13:06:51.860+01:00The Union Canal, Scotland
The Scottish waterways are not officially part of the Canal Laureate's ambit, but since I was in Edinburgh this week I decided to spend a morning exploring the Union Canal, starting at Meggetland Bridge and heading for the city.
Rowers from St Andrews Boat Club were out early, as were the dog-walkers.
The canal opened in 1822 to carry coal from the west of Scotland to NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-72677345449144563662018-04-08T08:02:00.002+01:002018-04-08T08:03:07.984+01:00Borrowed Bookshelves 17
Charlotte Du Cann and Mark Watson
Dark Mountain HQ, Suffolk, UK
NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-16521645491562961992018-04-06T14:42:00.003+01:002018-04-06T14:42:40.583+01:00Upcoming Event: BALTIC Self-Publishing Artists Market
Come to BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead on Saturday 21 April for the BALTIC Self-Publishing Artists' Market. I'll be exhibiting my work alongside over fifty other international artists, small press publishers, printmakers and zine makers.
NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-60866114291526157562018-03-04T08:43:00.002+00:002018-03-04T08:43:38.502+00:00Upcoming event: Barge Fiodra
This photo (taken by Canal & River Trust Writer in Residence Jasper Winn) shows me and Pierre Tremblay during our epic cycle journey along the Regent's Canal last month. The excursion was the start of a collaboration which has led to a new filmpoem about the Regent's Canal.
The fillmpoem, The Cut, will be premiered as part of Barge Fiodra's March festival. On 15 March you can join me NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-86689901119303809922018-02-04T12:10:00.000+00:002018-02-04T12:10:03.600+00:00Poetry Book Society Winter Bulletin
It's still winter - just! And before spring floods in I wanted to take this chance to thank the Poetry Book Society for using my work on the cover of their beautifully redesigned bulletin. The image of icebergs from my 2015 Ilulissat series also features on a poetry postcard alongside 'The Widow and Kaleidoscope' from Sasha Dugdale's new collection Joy, which is the Poetry Book Society NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685058619574155618.post-78376281391907667222018-01-24T09:28:00.002+00:002018-01-24T09:37:11.247+00:00Objects for the Anthopocene
Last week ClimateCultures invited me to contribute an essay on three objects which might represent my personal timeline of the Anthropocene. You can read my watery selection here.
And for those curious for more on kayaks, over on the Waterlines blog you can read my first Canal Laureate poem.NANCY CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02058610592487799899noreply@blogger.com0