[New-Poetry] Tranströmer

[m.peverett at ukonline.co.uk]

I don't recall if the recent thread mentioned (perhaps it was even originated 
by) Robin Robertson's new brief volume of versions from Enitharmon. So sorry 
if this has been mentioned before ... Anyway if you want a sample of Robertson 
at work I found this: 

http://www.blinking-eye.co.uk/pages/robin-robertson-poem.php

Robin Robertson

To Friends behind a Border
after Tranströmer

1.
I wrote to you so cautiously. But what I couldn't say
swelled and filled like a hot-air balloon
and finally floated away through the night sky.

2.

Now the letter is with the censor. He lights his lamp.
In its glare my words leap up like apes at a wire-mesh,
rattle it, stop, and bare their teeth.

3.

Read between the lines. We will meet in two hundred years
when the microphones in the hotel walls are forgotten
and are allowed to sleep at last, become ammonites.

© Robin Robertson, 2006.


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