The Sight of Light • The Sound of Clouds • The Touch of Skin by Pia Tafdrup, trans. David McDuff Alexander Tvardovsky 'Elegies') made up of mostly

'Elegies') made up of mostly shorter poems

 Strangely Happy (2011) and Love Is a Place (2016)

the seal and shark

the father

The Sight of Light • The Sound of Clouds • The Touch of Skin by Pia Tafdrup, trans. David McDuff Alexander Tvardovsky 'Elegies') made up of mostlyPublished 20th November 2025. Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmarks leading poets. She has published over 20 books in Danish since her first collection appeared in 1981, including widely admired sequences of themed collections. The latest of these is a series of five books focussing on the human senses, her Senses Quintet (2014 2022), which the critic Carsten Palmer Schale has called a cathedral of the soul and the best collection of poems written in