Susan's new collection of poetry, Where the Air is Rarefied (Cinnamon Press, 2011), is the culmination of a long-term collaboration with printmaker Pat Gregory. Their thematic starting point for the project was the metaphorical significance of 'the North', a concept that has very different resonance for different geographies and cultures. In the process of making the work, both poet and artist have drawn on a wide variety of sources, including Inuit Folk Tales, Icelandic Sagas and polar explorers' narratives, as well as on their own travels in Northern, sub-Arctic and Arctic regions.

The subject-matter of this collaboration builds on the concerns and subjects of Susan Richardson's previous volume, Creatures of the Intertidal Zone, but the interplay with visual art has stimulated a new freedom and experiment with language...pushing her work well beyond her previous comfort zones and...marking her emergence into a new breadth and vividness of voice, a new stage in her life as a poet - Philip Gross

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