"Tulpaner" by Agnes Gerner

Jag lyfter in morgonen

innanför nattlinnet,

en valp eller ett människobarn,

någon att trösta

och frihetsberöva,

ett sömnigt

hulkande djur

Swedish poet Agnes Gerner has published a new collection of poems entitled "Tulpaner" (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2024).

It is a collection of poems about life and survival, about motherhood and motherlessness, about a birth that emphasises a loss.

The book cover is illustrated with a pastel painting by Åsa Magnusson.

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Björn Kohlström (teacher of Swedish and English literature at Per Brahegymnasiet in Jönköping) has recently published on his blog Bernur a review of Agnes' collection of poems.

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Agnes Gerner, 2017

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"Tulpaner" is Agnes Gerner third collection of poems to be published, after "Skall"  (Albert Bonniers Förlag, April 2017) and "Sus" (Albert Bonniers Förlag, July 2017).

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You will find all the portraits of the author at the Opale Agency

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The "Prix de la poésie Max Jacob 2022" goes to Jila Mossaed.

Jila Mossaed, Iranian-born Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy, received the French literary Prix de la poésie Max Jacob for her poetry collection Le huitième pays (Éditions Le Castor Astral, 2022), in a translation of Françoise Sule, and a foreword by the Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata.

Jila Mossaed is represented in the book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons, 2020).

All the portraits of Jila Mossaed are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see the complete collection of author portrait here.

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Jila Mossaed, Göteborg 2005

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Durs Grünbein.

A photograph of the German poet Durs Grünbein published in the French daily newspaper Le Monde (April 12, 2019), and taken in Stockholm in January 2019.

All the portraits of Durs Grünbein are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see more publication at laurentdenimal.se/publication

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