Wednesday 12 October 2011

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
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

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


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.