Anna Tebelius

Elis Burrau’s first full-length poetry collection is a fragmented but alluring investigation into finding a poetic identity. It’s an opportunity to sample the very latest of young Swedish poetry.

A singular collection of poetry in which the present is conveyed through the presence of the past.

Highly conceptual poetry which goes much deeper than mere experimentation.

A hybrid text combining prose poem, journal, autobiography and travelogue ... ‘words en route’.

What’s most important: to remember correctly or to find the correct words?

You imagine that, within her, Violencia hosts a continuous never-ending party.

Thörn and Persson parody our fascination with crime and play with the conception of what is real by creating a sort of reality fiction.

Inspired by classic stories and computer adventure games.

New poems, interlaced with older ones – old favourites.

Essays on entomology.

Continues Frostenson’s weaving together of ideas, use of contradictory images, transformations and unpredictable leaps that have made her one of Sweden’s most revered poets.

Poems reworking the literary history of the sonnet from Shakespeare to Auden and beyond, echoing with intertextual references to other underworld travellers.

Eva Ström's novel takes risks by trying to examine how the unexplainable can feel as real and important as reality.

The poet Ulf Karol Olov Nilsson knows the extent of power a word can hold. In this collection, the absurd is juxtaposed with the tragic.

A curated list of thought-provoking recent poetry collections, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.