The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr by Miriam Nash #Translated but throughout there are the

but throughout there are the flourishes of lovely phrase-making

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s poetry has long been known for its mixing of the commonplace and the strange

A Painter of Our Time

its decisively modern inflections

No bust through into the empyrean

The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr by Miriam Nash #Translated but throughout there are theMiriams own Scandinavian ancestry started her on a quest to find the nine mothers, Jtunn or giants, who gave birth to the god Heimdallr. Although they are named in extant Norse literature, their stories remained untold. In Miriams poem, these giants are the protagonists, as they impart their creation myth to Heimdallr in a cave on the edge of the Norse world. In developing the project, which began as a commission for the podcast series Bedtime Stories