Drapa by Gerður Kristný, translated by Rory McTurk Kate Noakes disturbances - as well as

disturbances - as well as the beauty - involved in self-representation in language

This is also a poetry of moving plainness

’ Words reveal and at the same time conceal

there are quieter poems where the contrast between first and third worlds pricks the conscience as with the Brazilian cleaner

Drapa by Gerður Kristný, translated by Rory McTurk Kate Noakes disturbances - as well asCelebrated 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.