Last year I participated in a series of workshops focused on telling 'more-than-human" stories about Antarctica. This was my first time using stop motion and first time producing a poem in video format! Poem can be viewed here: antarcticstories.web.ox.ac.uk/glacier-tongue

Glacier tongue

Branwell Roberts is a poet and PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania. For their thesis they are producing a collection of poems about Antarctic history.

antarcticstories.web.ox.ac.uk

I am excited to share this photograph of lichenologist Elke Mackenzie in 1975! Prior to her transition in the 1960s, Mackenzie was the botanist on Operation Tabarin, a 1943-46 British expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. Thanks to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation for digitising 🏳️‍⚧️🐧

Call for Submissions – Magma 96: The Antarctic Closing date: 31st March, 2026 Editors @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social, @branwellroberts.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lewis Williams look forward to receiving your poems! More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

The "Antarctic" edition of Magma poetry magazine is now open for submissions! I'm one of the co-editors for this issue and I can't wait to read your new Antarctic poems. magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

Happy (belated) Antarctica Day! I celebrated by reading extracts from my sequence of poems on Sidney Jeffryes and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition❄️❄️

Intro: I’m Branwell, a poet working towards a creative PhD at the University of Tasmania. My work involves writing a poetry collection about Antarctic history, as well as research into the uses of poetry on expeditions of Antarctica’s “Heroic Age” (1897-1922).