This collaborative sonnet was improvised during our creative writing workshop on seascapes and the Arctic, in the Prints and Drawings department of the British Museum on 3rd December. The sonnet responds to wood engravings by Dalziel and Nancy Campbell’s poetry collection, Disko Bay.

By Sarah Alexander, Helen Bailey, Camilla Bostock, Nancy Campbell, Nancy Gaffield, Cage Williams, Katerina Klaric, Jane McCarthy Wilkinson, Katharine Isabel Rhodes, Isabel Seligman, Bethan Stevens and Bethany Whalley.