Leonard publishes his latest collection of essays on ideology and current affairs told through the prism of a travel writer. Travels in Cultural Nihilism is an ideological journey or more of a phenomenological wandering that drifts in and out of the Swedish woods, only to...
Leonard publishes the first part of his research on the anthropology of radio and its curious role in the development of the Faroese language. Faroese is spoken by just 50,000 people and is a linguistic revitalisation success story for this tiny language nearly died out...
Leonard is part of the organising team for the Spitsbergen Retraced expedition. This expedition retraced the first crossing of Spitsbergen carried out in 1923 by a group of Oxford University students. The expedition reproduced exactly the photographs from the first journey to show the impact...
Leonard appears on the Radio 3 programme ‘The Verb’ to discuss his volume of poetry called Arctic Journal. This was part of a series of programmes about poetry that focuses on the North....
In rather unpleasant conditions, Leonard completes the gruelling 71km ski marathon in northern Sweden. It is a long day and by the time Leonard crosses the finishing line it is more or less dark and most of the organisers have gone home....