Waitress in Fall: Selected Poems by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, transl. by Vala Thorodds Polly Atkin it can appear as if

it can appear as if we are leafing through the oblique diary of an immortal time-travelling rake

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

from William Wallace’s taste for cheese to the Queen’s love of gangsta rap

Winner of the Guyana Prize

written in the 1950s

Waitress in Fall: Selected Poems by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, transl. by Vala Thorodds Polly Atkin it can appear as ifFor 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