Northern Lights

book and glasses

TORCH Nordic Network member Stephen Pax Leonard took part in the BBC Radio 3's 'Northern Lights' season where Ian McMillan was looking north. Stephen Pax Leonard is a linguistic anthropologist and his book 'Artic Journal' is a chronological poem inspired by a year spent in the most northern permanently inhabited settlement in the world. Much of it was written during three months without sun. Click here to view other BBC programmes in the Northern Lights series.

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