Collected Poems (2005)

This comprehensive collection of Steinunn Sigurdardottir’s poems underscores her finest qualities as a writer: her witty and illustrative style, powerful and unexpected nature imagery, playfulness and joie de vivre as it counteracts dread and heartache, fervor tempered with irony, using ordinary language used to express wonder and life’s miracles. Most of Steinunn’s books have been out of print for years, but now they are all available in this new edition, which includes an especially lively foreword by the literary scholar Gudni Elisson.