Leaf-huts and Snow-houses

Selected Poems

Olav H Hauge author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd

Published:20th Aug '23

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This title is a Poetry Book Society recommended translation. In this generous selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, Robin Fulton displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry. Though deeply rooted in the West Norwegian landscape which he evokes so memorably, Hauge's poetry has a kinship in background and temperament with that of Robert Frost, while also sharing the wry humour and cool economy of William Carlos Williams and Brecht, whom he translated. Often epigrammatic, yet lyrical in impulse, his poems have a serenity which makes them unusually rewarding.

'Beyond the simple clear writing, there's a special kind of human being at work, with a lot of wisdom in the cellar, sensible to living in the cosmos... Robin Fulton's translations are authentic English poetry'Herbert Lomas, Ambit

ISBN: 9780856463570

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144 pages