Journal
Long-form essays and meditations on poetry, language and silence – from Swedish modernism to Persian mysticism.
A reading of Tomas Tranströmer that shows how the pauses, the breaths and the white space between the lines carry his poetry as much as the words themselves.
How a single poem about buds bursting open became a way of life for generations – and why Karin Boye's poetry keeps speaking into our own age of crisis and transformation.
Why 800-year-old Persian verses still strike us – and what happens on the way from Mevlana's Konya to the stillness of the Swedish language.
How a young woman in a Karelian sanatorium blew Swedish poetry to pieces – and built it anew. A reading of modernism's first Swedish-language breakthrough.
Beyond the myth of the self-destructive poet there is an artist of rare technical sharpness. A reading of the Ariel poems as metallurgy rather than autobiography.