ARTICA WRITINGS 2021
When sea ice melted despite the bitter cold / Da sjøis smeltet i frysende kulde
By Frank Nilsen
I have always been fascinated by the sea, its power and vibrancy, its teeming life forms, its undiscovered secrets, and the possibility of understanding and predicting its currents and upheavals.
Less, less, less, less, less: on listening to shells
By Holly Corfield Carr
Where the light pools on my desk, a shell—or what remains of a shell—wobbles as I write, wobbling the light. All but the last of its layers have disappeared.
O tell me all about Anna Livia! I want to hear all (FW, I, 8, 196)
By Dora Garcia
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is a book that contains all books and a story that contains all stories. Multiple threads can be picked up to lead our way through the Wake maze. The one thread I would like to pick up now is one of the characters, Anna Livia, and the final chapter of the book, book IV.
Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
By Philip Hoare
A long, long time ago, Olaus Magnus, for the benefit of his fellow bishops, filled the storm-racked northern seas with terrors. Monsters. They, and the ocean itself, were more tests of faith than actual animals or elements.