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,
“... and seemingly arbitrary, there is probably more truth in it than there ought to be. The Swede Tomas Tranströmer was for our time the poet of the North, the pendant – to use the obvious parallel – to Ingmar Bergman, in one of whose early films he was an extra, as a boy. Like Bergman, he gives you the days that are all night, and the nights that ... ”