Deception Island Alek Popov

Deception Island Alek PopovWelcome to Deception Island, a tiny Volcanic caldera in the Antarctic Ocean. Here the rusting remains of industrial whaling and a seabed littered with whalebones testify to mankinds greed and brutality. But the island is also an outpost of scientific exploration, witness to human attentiveness and fortitude. As the ship carrying the authors father edges through the basalt cliffs into the calmer waters of Deception Island, the islands many voices,

the first records of deaf people using manual signs to communicate date back to the sixteenth century

King of Northumbria from 635 to 642 AD

and a depth of insight into the texture of Indo-Trinidadian culture that has few parallels

there has been an explosive evolution in Sign arts since the 1960s – notably in areas that have traditionally been considered ‘text based’

this collection of poems are part history

From thinking stones

excavates the legal text

He wrote impassioned poems with philosophical themes

Richard Barnett studied medicine in London before becoming a historian

In inventing a biography and the drowned man’s unspoken desires

Deich’s protagonist

a troubled Canadian man