I really like Transtromer and I've enjoyed what I've seen of Fulton's translations.
Robin Robertson (yet another Scot) who won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in the UK last year, for his book Swithering, has also recently published Transtromer translations. There's a review in Poetry Review (along with Don Paterson's Rilke).
A quick excerpt from one of Robertson's translations - a perfect illustration of "Swedish silence":
The bus negotiates the winter night: a flickering ship in the pine forest on a road as narrow and deep as a dead canal.
Few passengers: some old, some very young. If it stopped and switched off its lights the world would be deleted.
I really like Transtromer and I've enjoyed what I've seen of Fulton's translations.
ReplyDeleteRobin Robertson (yet another Scot) who won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in the UK last year, for his book Swithering, has also recently published Transtromer translations. There's a review in Poetry Review (along with Don Paterson's Rilke).
A quick excerpt from one of Robertson's translations - a perfect illustration of "Swedish silence":
The bus negotiates the winter night:
a flickering ship in the pine forest
on a road as narrow and deep as a dead canal.
Few passengers: some old, some very young.
If it stopped and switched off its lights
the world would be deleted.