Fire and Ice: Nine Poets from Scandinavia and the North

by Gordon Walmsley (Translator), S. Koirala, Bernard Scudder (Translator)

This volume brings together poets from Scandinavia whose voices have not been widely heard in English translation. Denmark: Inger Christensen, Denmark's most celebrated contemporary poet, Lene Henningsen, and Willum Peder Trellund. Sweden: Katarina Frostenson, Birgitta Lillpers, and Birgitta Trotzig, translated into English for the first time. Iceland: Einar Mar Gudmundsson, and Didda, who has collaborated with her musician/friends Bjork and Magga Stina. Norway: Stein Mehren. Gordon Walmsley's latest poetry collection is Terebinthos.

Genres: Poetry

144 pages, Paperback

First published May 19, 2004