Photograph by Mike Knowles
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Tessa's publication, Shades of Green, was shortlisted for the 2006 Eco-Creativity Award,
sponsored by Friends of the Earth and the Eco Building Society (see below).
Tessa's previous publisher, The Ramsay Head Press, has now closed down.
The following Tessa Ransford titles are available from Tessa directly at
wisdomfield@talk21.com ,
each at £7 including postage (to the UK).
When it works it feels like play
Medusa Dozen and other poems
Fools and Angels
A Dancing Innocence
Seven Valleys
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Tessa is editor and translator of
"The Nightingale Question : 5 Poets from Saxony"
which has been published by
Shearsman Books (www.shearsman.com).
In the 2002, poet Tessa Ransford and artist Joyce Gunn-Cairns travelled to Leipzig
as part of a Scottish Arts Council travel award. While there, Tessa investigated the
local poetry scene and translated 5 poets who are based in Saxony: one in Weimar,
one near Dresden and three from Leipzig itself. Joyce sketched portarits of each of
the writers and made the portrait photographs that grace the cover of this book.
The
poets included are Wulf Kirsten. Uta Mauersberger, Andreas Reimann, Thomas Rosenlöcher,
Elmar Schenkel and Tessa Ransford herself. (The book cover is shown below, left).
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