Kill Your Darlings
Dr Dracula & Mr Harker is Torgny Lilja's brand new collection of poetry, which hopefully will be out next year in both English and Swedish. The collection will first be presented as a serial on this site.
In a blend of
modernism, creative writing, popular culture, journalese and adspeak,
the varying poems
contain elements of philosophy,
travesty, irony and societal satire. At the core is
freedom of
choice, opinion and expression.
Skuggsång i Provence is a collection of Lilja's poems from 1980 to 2010. It’s a prolonged version of the 1998 edition.
The collection covers three broad themes: love, life (from
youth to maturity) and
death. Typical is a description of nature
reflecting longing and loneliness. There are also poems
depicting the modern cityscape.
Skuggsång
contains poems in
Swedish and English. The title refers to a bird's
singing to itself in order to practice.
Lilja has also rendered Anna Akhmatova's cycle Requiem into Swedish verse.
Dr
Dracula 2012
Skuggsång 2010
Skuggsång 1998
Rekviem 2010
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