Hoo-Hooing in the Birch
Michael Hofmann: Tomas Tranströmer, 16 June 2016
Bright Scythe: Selected Poems
by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane.
Sarabande, 207 pp., £13, November 2015,978 1 941411 21 6 Show More
by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane.
Sarabande, 207 pp., £13, November 2015,
“... me geography in Edinburgh) and Robin Robertson, or the Irishman John F. Deane, or now the American Patty Crane. They were drawn by the small vocabulary, the short sentences, the largely transferable word-order, the language that seems to pay twenty shillings to the pound – darkness, stone, light, tree, cold. You feel the poet trotting through the ... ”