The Waking Glacier is a compelling, if unsettling, work of literary travel that embarks on an Arctic sea voyage as a dawning, existential immersion in the larger-than-human world. Mixing poetic reflection, ecological inquiry, and episodic memory, Dianne Chisholm documents her queer obsession with the ice. This is not a chronicle of heroic adventuring, but a serial passage of haunting attunement. Glaciers are rendered animate, volatile beings―their sublime spectacle inseparable from the melancholic soundscape of their groans, wails, and wakes of collapse under forces of planetary warming. The text itself is a crystallizing sensorium, seamlessly synthesizing expedition journal, polar exploration, revisionary history, and innovative prose poetry. With lyrical acuity and philosophical depth, Chisholm’s work serves as a powerful meditation on perception, loss, and the role of art in witnessing climate change. The Waking Glacier will resonate with readers of Robert Macfarlane, Rebecca Solnit, Ellen Meloy, and Barry Lopez, as well as scholars in environmental humanities and decolonial studies. "A strikingly original and deeply immersive meditation on Arctic exploration, climate change, and the evolving meanings of place in a rapidly warming world." Lisa E. Bloom, author of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics "With awe and reverence for the natural environments of the north, Dianne Chisholm explores concerns with land, environment, climate change, creativity, and gender through a High Arctic expedition to Svalbard, Norway." Kit Dobson, author of Field Notes on Listening With lyrical reflection, ecological inquiry, and episodic memory, Dianne Chisholm embarks on an Arctic sea voyage as a dawning, existential immersion in the larger-than-human world. Dianne Chisholm is a writer, photographer, alpinist, Arctic traveler, and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alberta.