Deception Island

Welcome 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 mankind’s greed and brutality. But the island is also an outpost of scientific exploration, witness to human attentiveness and fortitude.

As the ship carrying the author’s father edges through the basalt cliffs into the calmer waters of Deception Island, the island’s many voices, human and non-human, begin to speak.

Deception Island was published to coincide with the launch of a audio-visual poetry installation by Elizabeth Lewis Williams. See the installation here.

This book also includes an extract from Years on Ice: Life in Antarctica by AG Lewis, an author afterward, and reflections by Jean McNeill and Ieuan Hopkins from British Antarctic Survey.

• By Elizabeth Lewis Williams
• Paperback
• Published by Story Machine (2021)
• 150 pages
• 19.8 x 12.9 x 0.9 cm