The Space of Time 

Katarina Frostenson

November 2024  |  Threadsuns Press  |  170 pages

Translated from Swedish 

With an afterword by Carin Franzén

Winner – 2016 Nordic Council Literature Prize

“Katarina Frostenson’s The Space of Time is an unsentimental and smoldering study of the ecological and utopic function of grief. Frostenson seems to speak to the universal orphan lost in the Open, in the landscape, in literature, in bedwarmth, and in lamentation. And Bradley Harmon’s English enchants and conjures with as much stupefying wonder as Frostenson’s Swedish does.” — Gabriel Gudding

“Translated by Bradley Harmon with great attention to its lyrical movement, this is the first English-language book by Frostenson, a leading poet in Sweden since the 1980s. Frostenson’s poetry combines philosophical inquiry (of language, experience, song) with arresting images, interrogation of language with a high lyrical velocity. The “lattice of language” moves and turns with a breathless momentum that lights up my synapses.” — Johannes Göransson

Click here to hear 12 poems read by the author

Selected poems appear in:

• Anthropocene

• The Dodge

• The Hopkins Review

• Oxonian Review

• Plume

• Tupelo Quarterly