Red Thread
A poetry compilation of the first international gathering of Nordic publishers, cultural organizers, translators and performers under the name of "Red Thread", with the intention of forming an alliance and strengthening our network for the documentation of multimedia art in translation to and from multimedia languages and minority languages in the Nordic countries.
A poetry compilation of the first international gathering of Nordic publishers, cultural organizers, translators and performers under the name of "Red Thread", with the intention of forming an alliance and strengthening our network for the documentation of multimedia art in translation to and from multimedia languages and minority languages in the Nordic countries.
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Ireland / Sweden<br />
COLM KIERNAN<br />
Colm Kiernan is a cultural<br />
worker originally from Ireland<br />
but now living in Sweden. He<br />
likes to use his emotions to<br />
paint pictures with words. He<br />
realised early in life that no<br />
matter how much he talked<br />
around a subject words didn’t<br />
have the power to convey his<br />
feelings, being hampered by<br />
logical structures.<br />
He finds though that words<br />
when used in poetry for him<br />
paint between the lines.<br />
Flowing beyond the confines<br />
of realism and logic to bare<br />
self. A nudity of the soul<br />
inconceivable except in the<br />
hope of a poem.<br />
His poetry defines his inner<br />
self.<br />
Free<br />
I didn’t die at Easter<br />
I died in April<br />
rejecting the spring<br />
hearing thoughts<br />
through sentences in<br />
contradiction<br />
that between is clarity<br />
no one thing of deep<br />
meaning<br />
when all is painted into<br />
one picture<br />
without memory<br />
is truly to be free<br />
Fri<br />
Jag dog inte vid påsk<br />
jag dog i april<br />
vägrar våren<br />
hör tankar<br />
i motstridiga meningar<br />
som mellan raderna<br />
talar klarspråk<br />
inte en enda sak av<br />
betydelse<br />
när allt är målat till en<br />
enda bild<br />
utan minne<br />
är att verkligen vara fri<br />
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