
The Deleted World
Tomas Transtromer(Author)
Enitharmon Press
Published on 31. October 2006
Book
Hardback
978-1-904634-51-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this, his 75th year, Tomas Transtromer can be clearly recognised not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Transtromer is a poet of the liminal: drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water, the boundaries between man and nature, wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer, his scepticism about humanity is continually challenged by the implacable renewing power of the natural world. His poems are epiphanies rooted in experience: spare, luminous meditations that his extraordinary images split open - exposing something sudden, mysterious and unforgettable.
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Edition
Limited signed edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
Special edition
ISBN-13
978-1-904634-51-5 (9781904634515)
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Tomas Transtromer was born in Stockholm in 1931. He has written eleven books of poetry and has received numerous international honours, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, Germany's Petrarch Prize, the Bellman Prize and the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize. He lives with his wife in Stockholm. Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. He has won a number of awards for his poetry, including the Forward Prize, the Scottish First Book of the Year Award and the E.M. Forster Award. His third collection, Swithering, has been shortlisted for the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize.