Knut Ødegård was born in Molde, Norway in 1945. One of the best known of contemporary Norwegian poets, he has published more than ten collections of poetry and been translated into more than twenty languages. Dedalus Press published two previous titles in translation, Missa (2002) and Judas Iscariot and Other Poems (2005) and will publish his Selected Poems later this year.
Knut Ødegård
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)