utopos poetry
Our series of poetry features translations and original texts that will take you places you didn’t know existed.
A Listener
Christopher Norris draws on a lifetime of involvement with music when he treats a great range of verse forms, among them sonnet, terzanelle, quatrain, terza rima, ottava rima, and pantoum to treat individual composers and themes.
After Rilke
These English renderings offer a wide selection of Rilke’s New Poems (1907-8), ranging across many genres and reflecting the poet’s extraordinary gifts of inventiveness, depth, acute observation, and narrative power.
Damaged Life
This tribute to Adorno’s unequalled powers as a critic and theorist makes a case for a kind of poetry that engages issues beyond the narrowly personal remit of much contemporary verse.
Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs is an extended sequence of poems and verse-essays about Jacques Derrida in formal verse of a variously witty, ironic, reflective, discursive, and narrative character.
The Black Wall
By Laus Strandby Nielsen and Jørgen Veisland (transl.)
This is a collection of subtle poems, embracing a natural musical rhythm without a schematic meter and rhyme. The Black Wall offers a still picture which ultimately gives way to action and change.