Frank / Jordie Albiston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albiston, Jordie, 1961-2022, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962--Diaries--Poetry.

Hurley, Frank.

Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914).

Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917).

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.

Photographers--Australia--Diaries--Poetry.

Photographers.

Australian poetry--21st century.

Australian poetry.

Narrative poetry, Australian.

Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--Poetry.

Antarctica.

Discoveries in geography.

Australia.

Genre:

Narrative poetry.

Poetry.

poetry.

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

Frank Hurley accompanied both Mawson and Shackleton on their celebrated expeditions to Antarctica in the early twentieth century. In Frank, Jordie Albiston has combined daily snapshots from Australian photographic pioneer Frank Hurley's Antarctic diaries into a moving poetry collage. This volume, comprising about 120 poems, offers a portrait of Hurley as photographer and as man, at the end of the heroic era of exploration. Albiston explores the idea that historical narratives can yield a strange and unexpected power when subjected to the pressures of poetic form, and in this way she brings Hurley's thoughts and actions to life in a manner never seen before. Hurley's polar diaries, held at the National Library of Australia, represent a written adjunct to his pictorial surveys of what was then a geographical, cultural and artistic unknown. The poems were written and compiled during the author's tenure as the National Library of Australia's 2021 Creative Arts Fellow in Australian Writing. Jordie Albiston sadly passed away during the production of Frank; NLA Publishing is proud to now be realising her vision. -- National Library of Australia Publishing.

Contents:

I. The Mawson Expedition : (Australasian Antarctic Expedition) November 1912-January 1913

II. The Shackleton Expedition : (Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition) November 1914-September 1916

III. The picture show tour : (In the grip of the polar-ice) December 1919-January 1920.

Notes:

Based on the Frank Hurley's Antarctic diaries.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Related Work:

Adaptation of : Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962. Diaries.

ISBN:

9781922507433

1922507431

OCLC:

1365112537

Publisher Number:

99995499926