Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
The Icelandic poet, Gerður Kristný, has publishedfour collections of poetry with Arc, of which SealMother is the most recent. Winner of the IcelandicWomen’s Literature Prize 2023 and the IcelandicBooksellers’ Prize for Best Poetry book of 2022, SealMother received universal praise upon publication.This spellbinding sequence of poems tells the storyof the poet’s great-great-grandmother, a midwifewho lived on the northernmost coast of Iceland atthe end of the nineteenth century. Drawing on theclassical forms of Icelandic poetry, Kristný paintsclear and simple pictures of the struggle for survivalby the woman and her family in a narrative that ispowerful and timeless.Her three previous collections, Bloodhoof (2012),Drápa (2018) and Reykjavík Requiem (2020) haveall appeared from Arc in Rory McTurk’s translation.
