Ice Tongue is proud to announce the winner of the inaugural Ice Tongue McMurdo Station Poetry Contest: two poems by Claire Beynon.
Winners of the Inaugural McMurdo Station Fiction Contest will be published in our Winter Solstice Issue, June 21, 2006.
Fri 10 Feb 2006
Poetry by Kathleen Heideman
We are curious by nature, curious—yet find we yearn for something we already know:
at the end of the Taylor Valley, sunlight outlines every detail, but there’s no “human scale” –
nevertheless, we find ourselves sizing up each glacier — Hello? — appraising each dome of snow,
Fri 10 Feb 2006
Or A Short Summary the Heroic Era of British Antarctic Exploration
Poetry by Helen Paul
When men were men they starved and died
Or froze or larked about and made
Adventures, fraught with science, merely to have tried
Fri 10 Feb 2006
Poetry by Jeff Klein
Consider the Hadley Cell,
In which warm and moist air rises; travels
From the equator to a latitude
Fri 10 Feb 2006
Poetry by Bill Jirsa
The specimen informs: love is a floating point, no meaning except in things, time equals loss. Of course we may be wrong in detail.
This sample was found in Antarctica as two individual pieces which fit perfectly,
Fri 10 Feb 2006
Poetry by Jack Harris
Although surrounded, I am alone
This work is for the young
Who do not have the fear
Fri 10 Feb 2006
Poetry by Bill Manhire
Read by Sir Edmund Hillary at Scott Base, 28 November 2004, at a commemorative service to mark the 25th anniversary of the Erebus tragedy, when all 257 passengers and crew on Air New Zealand flight TE109 died on the slopes of Mount Erebus.
Fri 10 Feb 2006