Weight of Light
Published on 27. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
82 pages
978-1-84861-546-5 (ISBN)
Description
"She tries to conjure up places and situations which normal language does not reach, from which it has disappeared, and then let something unheard communicate with us across a distance for which we have no words. (...) What she adds is her fabulous gift of making her material physical." -Hadle Oftedal Andersen, Klassekampen
"...A lived and wise collection by this knowledgeable and sensitive poet." -Tore Elias Hoel, Dag og tid
"Hanne Bramness' own voice gently finds its way through a common language, not as insistence but as a presence, where the spontaneous warmth of feeling and intellectual distance balance each other." -Lennart Sjogren, Lyrikvannen
"...A lived and wise collection by this knowledgeable and sensitive poet." -Tore Elias Hoel, Dag og tid
"Hanne Bramness' own voice gently finds its way through a common language, not as insistence but as a presence, where the spontaneous warmth of feeling and intellectual distance balance each other." -Lennart Sjogren, Lyrikvannen
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Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
99 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-546-5 (9781848615465)
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Hanne Bramness (1959) is one of the leading Norwegian poets of her generation. Her first book Korrespondanse (Correspondance) appeared in 1983 and she has since published nine other volumes, the last of which is Fra hapets historie (From the history of hope) in 2017. She has also written five volumes of poetry and a novel, Lynettes reise (Lynette's journey), for young readers. Her translations of poetry into Norwegian include among others William Blake, Mina Loy, Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, Kamala Das, Selima Hill and Frances Presley. She has received five awards for her poems, among them The Dobloug Prize from the Swedish Academy in 2006. Together with her husband, the writer Lars Amund Vaage, she runs the poetry press Nordsjoforlaget (North Sea Publishers). She lives in Berlin and on the west coast of Norway, in Sunde south of Bergen, where she has participated in establishing Bergslagen, Sunde kyst- og litteratursenter, a national centre for material and immaterial coastal culture.