A panorama of poetry from Kalatdlit-nunat (Greenland), Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Saame poetry, Norway, Sweden and Finland from 1900-1975. Modern Scandinavian Poetry, under the general editorship of Martin Allwood, is the work of many hands - assisting editors and advisors, eighty-eight translators, and some 275 poets. Arranged by nationality, each section is introduced by an authority on the poetry of the country, who discusses general developments and trends and remarks on the poets who have been especially in the forefront.