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“We sweated to outlast this season of paralysis.
But our labour was nothing near enough
to see us walk back through winter’s black mouth"
Conceived during a winter residency at Gröndalshús in Reykjavík, Vetur is a gathering of voices shaped by the long dark of winter in Iceland, from Grýla, the infamous child-eating ogress, to a starving Pagan settler and a foreign poet adrift and in search of belonging in the Far North. Interweaving folklore, history, cultural observations and personal reflection, Vetur explores, with fierce wonder and intimate introspection, the tensions between survival and surrender, tradition and transformation, in a season as beguiling as it is brutal, where borders between the mystical and mundane shift and merge.
Katie Metcalfe is a writer, poet, blogger, and self-taught photographer. She’s the author of several books including My Heart Is a Forest and People of the Sea Ice. Katie was one half of the transatlantic Witch Folk band Cave Mouth and made three albums with them. She also released a spoken word album, Arctic Fever, in collaboration with the Michigan-based band Crown of Asteria. Blood, breath, and bone bind Katie's life and much of her work to the North. She explores the northern-most parts of our world from all conceivable angles through her poetry, photography, songs, and essays.
To find out more about Katie's work, visit her website: https://www.awyrdofherown.com.
Authored by Katie Metcalfe.
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2025. 158 pages. Published by A Wyrd of Our Own Publishing. UK.
Design and Layout by Rydlyh, a division of Hyldyr.
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