Work in Progress


In this section I intend to put selections of work that is currently in progress, or that forms part of larger translation and writing projects still in the making.

So far, four writers are represented here: The Finnish poet Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921-1995), the Finland-Swedish poet Gösta Ågren (b.1936), the Danish poet Pia Tafdrup, and the renowned Finland-Swedish prose author, Tove Jansson. You can read translated selections from Eeva-Liisa Manner's early verse collection

This Journey

and a poem by Gösta Ågren from one of his recent collections, Coming Here:

The Return of Orpheus

The third item is a translation of Tove Jansson's first Moomin book, published in 1946:

The Moomins and the Great Flood


The fourth item is a series of translations from Pia Tafdrup's Over vandet gaar jeg (1990), a treatise on poetics:

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four


Another project I am currently working on - albeit slowly - is a series of translations of the work of the Estonian poet Marie Under (1883-1980). For the moment, I have included a few French translations, but eventually I hope to be able to present my own English-language ones here.

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