"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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