Tomas Tranströmer internet round-up

Tomas Tranströmer has won this year's Nobel Prize for literature. For those who may not be aware of his work, here is a round up of 47 of his poems available on the internet, and some recommended further reading.


POEMS

• From The Nobel Prize website: 

Allegro

The Half-Finished Heaven

Under Pressure

Open and Closed Spaces

The Nightingale in Badelunda

 

• From The Academy of American Poets website: 

After a Death
Outskirts

• From The Poetry Foundation website: 

National Insecurity
November in the Former DDR
The Indoors Is Endless

• From The Guardian newspaper website: 

Alone
(audio version)
Tracks

• From Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts: 

18 poems from The Sorrow Gondola translated by Patty Crane, with Swedish originals.

• From Brick Magazine's website:
  

Breathing Room

• From Google Books: 

16 poems from The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems translated by Robin Fulton
(Note: "Baltics", a long poem, is incomplete.)




FURTHER READING 

• Receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry.

Text and Video

• An Essay on The Sorrow Gondola

by David Wojan


POETRY IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

• The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems, translated by Robin Fulton.

• The Half-Finished Heaven: Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robert Bly.

• The Deleted World, versions by Robin Robertson.