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| Tessa Ransford OBE, Hon.DUniv (Paisley), MA, Dip Ed
Poetry Practitioner and Adviser 31 Royal Park Terrace, Edinburgh EH8 8JA, Scotland, U.K. Tel : 0131 661 1277 E-mail :wisdomfield@talk21.com (personal) E-mail Tessa Ransford Website 
Tessa wrote an article on pamphlets for the March 2010 edition of Scottish Affairs. Download and read the article by clicking here An interview with Tessa appeared in World Literature Today, March/April 2010, University of Oklahoma, www.worldliteraturetoday.com Her previous pamphlet 'Shades of Green' was shortlisted for the Eco Prize in 2006 - see The Eco Prize it was published by Akros as was Sonnet Selection and eight Rilke lyrics translated, both can be purchased by clicking here POEM ABOUT POETRY (Shearsman Books) from DAS SONETTARIUM by ANDREAS REIMANN (translated by Tessa Ransford and appearing in The Nightingale Question) We are so altogether purposeless: a meagre rain that fails to soak the grass. Poor poet, patched-up, shabby, colourless, from the land of Make-Believe-Romance. Poems come to nothing long before they scramble into words on the paper. The best, a gust, a stammer, nothing more, if measured with a suffering that never reaches speech. We allude to love and death yet these may not be mentioned: it is thus we are so altogether purposeless. The poem, condemned to seem but pomp and fuss, is almost silence - like the burning bush - and dying, just a poem come to grief. |
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