Breaking the Ice

So welcome to the first day of Polar Poets Go Live! We're very excited to be launching our Arctic expedition into this white space. All this week, we'll be posting up blogs, with interviews, quizzes and poems, to give you a flavour of what the Polar Poets are about. We hope you'll join in, post a comment, maybe even win a prize!

Let's do introductions first. The well-known eco-poet Susan Richardson has performed in sites as diverse as a Welsh mountain, BBC Radio 4 and the Green Party Conference. Her collection, Creatures of the Intertidal Zone ranges from Viking women in the sub-arctic to explorers at the South Pole, with penguins, icebergs and escaped wildlife in between.

Siobhan Logan performs poetry about the myths and science of the Northern Lights. Her collection, Firebridge to Skyshore: A Northern Lights Journey features reindeer and polar bears, scientists and Saami people, as well as the mysterious aurora. Her work has appeared at venues including London's Science Museum and the National Space Centre.

Now we are joining forces to bring our stories of the Arctic to venues across the country, offering workshops, talks or performances. If you're interested in booking us - or maybe have ideas about venues we could approach - Contact: polarpoets@googlemail.com

We're also grateful to Paul Lomatschinsky for his generous offer to use his photographs of Greenland. (Check out his own aerial adventure on http://www.itftuk.com/ )


So here's a little Caption Competition to get us started today. The 2 pictures on this posting show Susan and Siobhan on their intrepid travels. And the person who comes up with the best captions for both photographs will win a PRIZE. How can you resist having a go? Just post your comment below.

and if you pop back on Wednesday you can have a crack at our POLAR POETS QUIZ too.

Winners will be revealed on Friday - as will prizes! See you then ...