Original title Östersjöar Publication date 1974 Pages 36 Originally published 1974 Page count 36 Translator Samuel Charters | Language Swedish Published in English 1975 ISBN 91-0-039367-3 Publisher Albert Bonniers förlag Country Sweden | |
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Tomas Tranströmer books The Great Enigma, 17 Poems, The Sorrow Gondola, For the Living and the Dead, Den halvfärdiga himlen | ||
Baltics (Swedish: Östersjöar) is a long poem by the Swedish writer Tomas Tranströmer, published in its own volume in 1974. Its narrative is set on Runmarö in the Stockholm archipelago, and is partially based on notes left by Tranströmer's grandfather who had been a maritime pilot on the island.
Publication
The book was published in 1974 through Albert Bonniers förlag. An English translation by Samuel Charters was published in 1975. In 1990, a few months before he suffered a stroke which damaged his ability to speak, Tranströmer made a Swedish audio recording of the poem which runs for 24 minutes.
References
Baltics (poem) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA