Drapa by Gerður Kristný, translated by Rory McTurk Doris Kareva  The Sun of HereafterÂ

 The Sun of Hereafter (2000) and Ebb of the Senses (2004)

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Kate Wise and Andrew Wynn Owen

Poems become pliable

But when she went to work in St Petersburg she discovered that she was the spitting image of the Russian version of Alice – not Tenniel’s blonde school-girl

Drapa by Gerður Kristný, translated by Rory McTurk Doris Kareva  The Sun of HereafterÂCelebrated Icelandic writer Gerur Kristn's Drpa is a novel poem which takes its form from Old Norse shield poetry and its mood from modern Nordic crime. But the poem is no fiction: it is about a real woman's murder in the city of Reykjavik, and, through this lens, about all women's deaths. This is Viking poetry at its most contemporary.