The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr by Miriam Nash #Translated street corners – into sites

street corners – into sites of intense significance that weigh heavily on the modern mind

and twelve poems bring the traveler back

sometimes off-putting in his personal habits

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

to self-reflections on the poet as remembrancer

The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr by Miriam Nash #Translated street corners – into sitesMiriams 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