Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm

It’s Nobel Week! Tomas Tranströmer will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm on December 10, 2011. We are proudly celebrating this accomplishment as the publishers of a new selection of Tranströmer’s poems, The Deleted World, translated by renowned Scottish poet Robin Robertson.

The Nobel Prize winners are presenting a series of lectures leading up to the ceremony on Saturday. Nobel Media has generously provided a live webcast of the Nobel Lectures in Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Physics and Chemistry, as well as the Prize Lectures in Economic Sciences.

Today at 5:30pm CET, Tomas Tranströmer will be presenting the Nobel Lecture in Literature. Tune in later today!

Robin Robertson on Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtroemer

Congratulations to Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer, who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature today. Hearing this exciting news immediately made us think of Robin Robertson’s wonderful collection of poetry The Wrecking Light, and in particular Robertson’s two poems inspired by Tomas Transtroemer: “Calling Home” and “Ictus.”

We’ve made both poems available here for you to read as a downloadable PDF from the book in order to preserve the original formatting. Enjoy!

Download and read “Calling Home” and “Ictus,” excerpted from Robin Robertson’s The Wrecking Light.

Tweets and photos from last night’s Poetry Bash

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Anansi Poetry Bash last night! It was so lovely to see so many people supporting our spring poetry titles. Congratulations to Ken Babstock (Methodist Hatchet), Matt Rader (A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno), and Sharon Thesen (Oyama Pink Shale) for a fantastic launch.

Our Poetry Bash space, the upstairs of Levack Block, inside and out (click for bigger photos):

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And here’s a little taste of what was being said about the Bash on Twitter last night and this morning: