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Face to Face

Tomas Tranströmer

Translated by Robin Robertson

ʻThe birds refused to fly and the soul / grated against the landscape.ʼ

Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Tranströmer is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Great Enigma and Windows and Stones. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. Robin Robertson’s book of free versions of Tomas Tranströmer’s poems, The Deleted World, is published by Enitharmon Press in the UK and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US.

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Translated by Robin Robertson

Robin Robertson has published three books of poetry: A Painted Field, Slow Air and Swithering (which won the 2006 Forward Prize for Best Collection). His translation of Medea has just been published.

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