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Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Guardian

Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books' Holiday List.

A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife

Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand. Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker

The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale. Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today

Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulfand fifty years after the tran

Beowulf A New Translation

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      Publisher: MCD X Fsg Originals
      Publication Date: 25/08/2020
      ISBN13: 9780374110031, 978-0374110031
      ISBN10: 0374110034
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Guardian

      Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books' Holiday List.

      A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife

      Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand. Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker

      The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale. Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today

      Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulfand fifty years after the tran

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