UA Poetry Center
Tomas Tranströmer reads widely from his work; he also reads two poems by fellow Swedish poet Harry Martinson. Of note, Martinson received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974, the year before this reading. Thirty-six years later, in 2011, Tranströmer himself was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The reading includes the performance of two poems in Swedish, and ends with a rich and extensive question and answer session.
by Harry Martinson. Performed in Swedish and English.
Martinson, Harry. "The Cable Ship." Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.
by Harry Martinson.
Martinson, Harry. "Landscape." Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.
Performed in Swedish and English.
Tranströmer, Tomas. "The Half-Finished Heaven." Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.
Tranströmer, Tomas. Windows & Stones. Trans. May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.
Tranströmer, Tomas. "Preludes." Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.
Tranströmer, Tomas. Baltics. Trans. Samuel Charters. Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1975.
Differs from published version.
Tranströmer, Tomas. Selected Poems. Trans. Robin Fulton. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1981.
Tranströmer, Tomas. Selected Poems. Trans. Robin Fulton. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1981.
Translated by Samuel Charters. Uncollected.
Some questions are inaudible.
