Waitress in Fall: Selected Poems by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, transl. by Vala Thorodds Polly Atkin the kind that comes in

the kind that comes in close to your ear to whisper dark secrets and unavoidable truths

written in the 1950s

while poems set in Belfast reflect the aftermath of the Troubles and celebrate the city's current phase of recovery and restoration

Simon Barraclough

Winner of the Guyana Prize

Waitress in Fall: Selected Poems by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, transl. by Vala Thorodds Polly Atkin the kind that comes inFor over three decades, the work of Kristn marsdttir has thrived in the vanguard of Icelandic literature. Waitress in Fall offers anglophone readers the first substantial selection of her poems in translation. Spanning thirty years and seven collections from her first to her latest this wide reaching introduction celebrates a vital voice in contemporary European poetry. Kristn marsdttirs work resists the sweet, the neat or the certain. Her poems