Bilingual Poetry Collection: Darkening / Myrking

"Darkening/Myrking" by Sissal Kampmann has just been published in the UK by Frances Boutle Publishers. It is the first-ever bilingual Faroese–English publication of a work of Faroese literature. And who better to bring Faroese literature to the English speaking world than Sissal Kampmann, one of the pre-eminent contemporary Faroese poets, whose voice clothes universal human experience in distinctly Faroese imagery. In "Darkening/Myrking" the concept of home is at the heart of this tale of love and longing, finding a place in people and time in a world of contrasts – looming mountains and wide horizons, outfields and streetlights, island isolation and urban anonymity. Read more on francisboutle.co.uk