The Song Weigher by Egill Skallagrímsson James Thornton tenacious way of penetrating and

tenacious way of penetrating and exploring the core of her subject that seems to me unique

in cars and on foot

Opening with new poems written during his 80s – since his Costa-shortlisted collection Standard Midland (2010) – the book’s second section is a gathering of uncollected poems mainly written during the 1960s

undermining and rebuilding syntax in order to precipitate language

The Song Weigher by Egill Skallagrímsson James Thornton tenacious way of penetrating andTranslated and introduced by Ian Crockatt with a Preface by Professor Roberta Frank Egill Skallagrmsson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth to thirteenth century Scandinavia as heroism in battle. Egill's saga details his life story as well as those of his immediate predecessors, from whom he inherited his massive build, his