Chris Orsman

Chris Orsman lives in Wellington. His latest collection, The Lakes of Mars, was published by Auckland University Press in May 2008.

Orsman comments: ‘ “A First Landing” was written to commemorate the historic “first landing” on the Antarctic mainland in January 1895. By all accounts (which are scanty) the occasion was a mixture of the sublime and the ridiculous, and the poem sets out to capture something of this.’

Poem: A First Landing

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