A NEW STATESMAN AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A new feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the acclaimed novel The Mere Wife. Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaneys translation of Beowulf and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment students around the world there is a radical new verse interpretation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley which brings to light elements never before translated into English. A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monste