Vala Thorodds will be performing at our evening of poetry from Iceland on Wednesday 19th July at the Castle Hotel, Northern Quarter, Manchester. More details here.

Vala Thorodds is a poet, publisher, editor, and literary curator. She is founding director of the independent literary press Partus and managing editor of the Manchester-based poetry press Sine Wave Peak. Hailed ‘the future of Icelandic poetry’ (Sjón), she was nominated on behalf of Iceland to the PEN International New Voices Award (2014) and has had poetry published in a number of anthologies and magazines including Gutter, Magma, and The White Review online.