Drapa by Gerður Kristný, translated by Rory McTurk Doris Kareva consistent receptivity to place and

consistent receptivity to place and her skilful interplay between ghosts and dream-worlds and lived life

His second

Written with the lyrical precision of her earlier work but with a new intimacy

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

Drapa by Gerður Kristný, translated by Rory McTurk Doris Kareva consistent receptivity to place andCelebrated 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.