From Poetry You Came (2016)

“LIFE is an unpredictable teenage girl. She is just as likely to smile as burst into tears. She shakes her hair in the face of the world and her boyfriend: that first love that no one will ever measure up to.”

This is the eighth book from this clever poet — and her first in nine years. The work includes sailing poetry, poetry on the ultimate argument, absent friends and more.

• Nominated for the DV Cultural Awards 2016

“From Poetry You Came establishes Steinunn Sigurdardottir’s mastery of the poetic form. The sea theme she has chosen for her poems is compelling and she puts it to particularly good use such that the poems fall in line into a harmonious whole, despite their complex and diverse natures. She plays with language, references, metaphor and the form itself such that the poems manage to capture the large scale and the small. In the same way, she weaves together the mundane and the sublime in accessible texts that ebb and flow with each reading.” JURY COMMENTS FROM THE DV CULTURAL AWARDS