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

From the mating of sea slugs to the discovery of gravity waves

His second

‘My flesh making heaven of it

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 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.