I am co-organising an event, Cities of Light: Co-existence, a symposium and series of events in Barcelona. Diego Ferrari of Kingston University, Laura Cuch of Goldsmiths and I have programmed two and a half days of activities beginning on February 21st.
My short story 'The Most Beautiful Voyage in the World' was shortlisted for the Climate Futures Initiative's Everything Change 2018 short fiction contest and is published in an anthology of shortlisted stories along with the winning piece, edited by Kim Stanley Robinson.
London independent bookshop Lutyens and Rubenstein is kindly hosting a joint launch for Michael Bravo's The North Pole and Ice Diaries on February 7th 20
Great Yarmouth-based Original Projects and the Norwich Sonic Arts Collective invited Mark Cocker and I to make Episode 1 of a series of podcasts on Edgelands, funded and supported by the Broads
Fellow polar writer Michael Bravo and I were interviewed by Anne McElvoy for BBC Radio 3's nightly magazine of ideas and culture, Free Thinking, on December 13th.
I'm thrilled that my book Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir (published in the UK in hardback on November 22nd) has been included in The Guardian's Best Books of 2018 annual pre-Christmas round-up.
My book about all things ice, based on a residency in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey, is pubished in the UK in paperback (£15.99).
Image by Diego Ferrari
Day for Night: Landscapes of Walter Benjamin exhibition at the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H