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Book SynopsisThe latest in Arc's Translation Series brings poems from Sigurður Pálsson's ten collections written between 1980 and 2008 to a UK audience.
Swirling with imagery, they reveal a poet committed to unearthing the joy of living and its connections to the natural world. This is a thrilling sweep across Pálsson's work: chronologies are upset, ideas run amok, views out onto the world close and open.
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Sigurður Pálsson was born in 1948 in Skinnastadur, Iceland. A writer, translator, professor and film producer, he won the Icelandic Literary Award in 2007, the same year he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite by the President of France. Martin Regal lives in Reykjavik and teaches at the University of Iceland. His translation of Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri was published by Penguin Classics in 2003 (ISBN 9780140447729).
Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction / 8 Nocturne for Mercury / 33 Nocturne for Venus / Nocturne for a full moon / Nocturne for a brimful moon / Nocturne for Mars / Nocturne for Jupiter / Nocturne for Saturn / Nocturne for Uranus / Land possessed by poems / Downtown in Reykjavik City / A few practical exercises in event poetry / My house / Beckett at the Closerie des Lilas /Plywood /The acacia tree / Miklatun Park / Search / The black land / Knowledge / Twilight / Star in the grass / The art of poetry / Hotel lounge / Windows / Photograph of a dead child / Keep on sitting here / Arrogance / Midnight / In the eaves / The Firmament/ Nothing / The dark / Eternal morning / Fragmented view / Each breath / Light / The shadow / Freedom is a question / Winged lion / Bole / Ode / The old harbour / Poem-energy-need / By river and ocean / Announcement from the international assembly of diamonds / Biographical Notes.
