How To Say 'I Love You' In Greenlandic: An Arctic Alphabet

Campbell, Nancy 

How To Say 'I Love You' In Greenlandic: An Arctic Alphabet

This alphabet book serves as an introduction to the evocative Kalaallisut language. All 12 initial letters of the Greenlandic alphabet are represented with words ranging from akunagaa (‘it is too late to begin’) to unnuarpoq (‘there is no night any longer’). These words and their English definitions are accompanied by a series of pochoir prints depicting icebergs. As in contemporary Arctic life, the denouement of the sequence is caused by the disappearance of the ice. The alphabet is accompanied by a short essay highlighting the issues faced by speakers of Kalaallisut, which was declared ‘vulnerable’ by UNESCO in 2009.

Bird Editions: Oxford, 2011

18 pages, in designer binding by Natasha Herman of Red Bone Bindery. Letterpress printed, with pochoir illustration, in an edition limited to 50 copies signed and numbered by the author.
(£450)

How To Say 'I Love You' In Greenlandic: An Arctic Alphabet

Campbell, Nancy

How To Say 'I Love You' In Greenlandic: An Arctic Alphabet

MIEL editions, Ghent, 2014

This alphabet book serves as an introduction to the evocative Kalaallisut language. All 12 initial letters of the Greenlandic alphabet are represented with words ranging from akunagaa (‘it is too late to begin’) to unnuarpoq (‘there is no night any longer’). These words and their English definitions are accompanied by a series of pochoir prints depicting icebergs. As in contemporary Arctic life, the denouement of the sequence is caused by the disappearance of the ice. The alphabet is accompanied by a short essay highlighting the issues faced by speakers of Kalaallisut, which was declared ‘vulnerable’ by UNESCO in 2009.

Full colour. 18 postcards/pages, loose in printed paper wrapper with foil-stamped band, 10.5 x 14.8 cm.

ISBN 9789082172409
(€15.00)

Nordenskiöld and The Ice Cap

Koester, Joachim


Nordenskiöld and The Ice Cap


The search of the Finnish-Swedish explorer Nils Nordenskiöld (1832-1901) for the temperate hidden heartland in the Greenland ice cap where Norse settlers were believed to have survived was conducted in expeditions during 1870 and 1873. Koester’s eponymous slide installation superimposes text fragments from Nordenskiöld's unpublished diaries on images of glacial landscapes.

14 slides are illustrated here, accompanied by two essays. The first essay, Of Reduction and Hyperbole by Lars Bang Larsen considers Koester’s ice narratology, and the second, Images Of Ice and Thought by Anders Kreuger needs no further explanation. The book concludes with a selection of pertinent quotations, some inevitable (Spufford) and some pleasantly surprising (Malevich, Pynchon).

Space Poetry: Copenhagen, 2005

Paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. 72 pages, 19.5 x 14 cm

ISBN 87-7603-034-2


(€19.50)