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Category: Tomas Transtromer

The Year of Living Deepy 2: Re-reading Tomas Tranströmer

Below Zero We are at a party that doesn’t love us. At last the party lets its mask drop and … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer

The Half-Finished Heaven, by Tomas Tranströmer

The Half-Finished Heaven   Despondency breaks off its course. Anguish breaks off its course. The vulture breaks off its flight. … More

Dementia, Kenneth Branagh, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, literature, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, The Half-Finished Heaven, Tomas Transtromer, Wallander

Tracks, by Tomas Tranströmer

Tracks   2 am: moonlight. The train has stopped out in the middle of the plain. Far away, points of … More

Being a Poet, Blood Cancer, Bloodaxe, Cancer, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, literature, mindfulness, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Remission, Robin Fulton, Tomas Transtromer, Tracks

Go-to poet?

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the ‘poets I go back to’ idea, that I first came across in … More

Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry

From the archives: Should I have heard of you?

‘We are at a party that doesn’t love us’ – Tomas Tranströmer   We are at a thing. Not a … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Tomas Transtromer

Alone, by Tomas Tranströmer

Alone I One evening in February I came near to dying here. The car skidded sideways on the ice, out … More

Alone, Being a Poet, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, literature, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer

The point is the silence

  ‘I’ve stopped listening to the radio!’ ‘What, completely?’ the book says. ‘Not completely, I’m not an idiot,’ I say. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Creativity, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Teaching Writing, The Book, Tomas Transtromer, Trusting in the Process, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Breathing Space July, by Tomas Tranströmer

Breathing Space July   The man who lies on his back under huge trees is also up in them. He … More

Bloodaxe, Breathing Space July, Cancer, Death, Dying, Health, Illness, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poetry in Education, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, The Rattlebag, Tomas Transtromer

Looking for Ted Hughes

‘I’ve been out,’ says the book. ‘So I see,’ I say. The book is dressed in a pith helmet and … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Presence, Rest, Seamus Heaney, Teaching Writing, Ted Hughes, The Book, Tomas Transtromer, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

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