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Poetry, writing and translations by K-M Skalkenæs

  • English poetry
    • 30 after thoughts (2021)
    • divisive / dismissive / missive (2018)
    • Light Requires Darkness (2018)
    • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes (2017)
    • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn (2014)
    • What Bits of Peace My Life’s Ensured (2014)
    • Poems Inspired by Paintings (2014)
  • Danish poetry
    • De spor man efterlader sig (2017)
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    • Edith Södergran
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      • The September Lyre
      • The Rose Altar
      • The Shadow of the Future
      • The Land Which Is Not
    • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
      • naked human
      • The Lowest Country
      • Towards Jerusalem
      • Nineteen Poems
    • Edvard Søderberg
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Category: Essays

  • 30 after thoughts
  • Essays
08 Mar, 202113

New Essay: “City Thoughts, Early Morning, Insomnia”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

  Morning breathes down my neck again. Unbidden as always. Closed blinds shut out the sight of nothing. Concrete. Tarmac. Bricks.   Humans suck the soul out of their surroundings – leaving nothing even for themselves in their wake. And then complain […]

  • 30 after thoughts
  • Essays
03 Mar, 202114

New Essay: “Inconsequential Log”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Autumn. Alternating drizzle and biting cold sun. Empty page waiting to be filled. Loose words skip-jump in my head, refusing to band together and create the dreaded sentences. There’s so much responsibility in a sentence. So many consequences to be […]

  • 30 after thoughts
  • Essays
28 Feb, 202113

New Essay: “In Praise of Grime”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Carefully drawn lines delineating the exact form I envisioned. It looks exactly like I wanted it to – from mind to paper.  However… What is missing? Everything is so perfectly detailed. Nothing is missing from the motive. But somehow it […]

  • Essays
25 Feb, 202113

New Fragment: “Writing About Writing”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

All those smart sentences that pop into one’s head every now and then. The ones that just explain things. Just so. If only it was possible to write a book consisting of nothing but those. But they don’t string together […]

  • Essays
09 Feb, 202113

New Fragment: “Pieces of Thought”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I found myself in a splendid moment and thought that I should stay in it, and get the most out of it. The thought alone stole my presence and so I lost it. — Human beauty. The calmness that comes […]

  • 30 after thoughts
  • Essays
17 Mar, 201813

Herald of Destruction

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I carry bricks and tile with me in my pockets whenever I go to the city. At least it seems so. Every time I return to my hometown I find an old house torn down – every time I go […]

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