Poet and PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania. I write poetry about Antarctic history.https://bsky.app/profile/branwellroberts.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/branwellroberts.bsky.social/post/3mjvdlnpkn22vLast 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 https://antarcticstories.web.ox.ac.uk/glacier-tongue20 Apr 2026 01:40 +0000at://did:plc:e2w367zo647xhsa4cgnfzdya/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvdlnpkn22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/branwellroberts.bsky.social/post/3mhwd6ysks225I 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 🏳️‍⚧️🐧26 Mar 2026 00:15 +0000at://did:plc:e2w367zo647xhsa4cgnfzdya/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhwd6ysks225https://bsky.app/profile/branwellroberts.bsky.social/post/3mg4yd6gzj22sThe "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. https://magmapoetry.com/call-for-submissions-magma-96-the-antarctic/03 Mar 2026 04:59 +0000at://did:plc:e2w367zo647xhsa4cgnfzdya/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg4yd6gzj22shttps://bsky.app/profile/branwellroberts.bsky.social/post/3m754w6rt5c2eHappy (belated) Antarctica Day! I celebrated by reading extracts from my sequence of poems on Sidney Jeffryes and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition❄️❄️04 Dec 2025 04:25 +0000at://did:plc:e2w367zo647xhsa4cgnfzdya/app.bsky.feed.post/3m754w6rt5c2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/branwellroberts.bsky.social/post/3m6ocaulkek2qIntro: 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).28 Nov 2025 06:51 +0000at://did:plc:e2w367zo647xhsa4cgnfzdya/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ocaulkek2q