Harri Nordell

I am a poet (born 1956) living in Parainen in the Turku Archipelago. Here a tthe Saari Residence, I am writing my sixth poetry collection. Already after this first week, I have noticed that my work flows easily here. Right now, in the synopsis phase of my collection, I have decided to write a section of haikus. Maybe ten of them. The other poems of the collection are free of strict syllable counts.

Critics have found it hard to specify a genre for my poems. The most common definitions are minimalist, modernist, surrealist, romanticist. Lately, my translators, for example, have categorized me as “nordellist.” Funny people.

By Finnish standards, my collections are published exceptionally far apart. An average of five or six years. My poems simply brew over time. Verses often find their way into the same poem at various different ages. I have only written a few poems in one sitting.

My poems have been translated into Italian, Spanish, French, English, and Swedish.

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