Indrek Mesikepp

luuletajad

Language: estonian
Translations: english (poets), latvian (Dzejnieki )

luuletajad
reality-show

sõelale on jäänud vaid kaks võistlejat
mõlema šansid on ebakindlad
kui O ka järgmises saates
ei vii oma 16-aastast pruuti voodisse
ja N see õnnetu luuser
keda väljalangemisest
päästis napilt suitsiidikatse
kui ta ka järgmises osas
ei vii lahutuspabereid sisse
siis ei piisa enam
saatest saatesse korduvast
joomahullusest
depressioonist
ja kõrtsikaklustest
mäng muutub tyytuks
saate reiting langeb
ja see hooaeg
jääb luuletajatele viimaseks

© Indrek Mesikepp
From: Alasti ja elus
Pärnu: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2008
Audio production: Eesti Kirjanduse Teabekeskus [Estonian Literature Centre], 2014
Categories: poetry & poets

Indrek Mesikepp

photo © Indrek Mesikepp
* 17.10.1971, Tartu, Estonia
lives in: Tallinn, Estonia
The work of the poet Indrek Mesikepp, who has the  shortest writer’s name in Estonia - fs - draws together the contemporary lines of power in Estonian poetry, while at the same time staying clearly distinct, standing out. He is a poet sensitive to the times. 

Indrek Mesikepp graduated from Tartu University in 1999 as an art historian. He has been working at the literary monthly Looming since 2000, is a literary critic and has also written short prose. His pseudonym already has a history: it was first the glamorous François Snakesnake, inspired by the films of Pierre Richard, then first simplified to François Serpent, and finally the very short form of it. By now he is the author of five poetry collections. In 2004 Indrek Mesikepp won the Estonian Cultural Endowment's Award for Poetry: the epigraph of the book 2004 was chosen from George Orwell’s novel 1984. This collection has also appeared in the Swedish, Russian, and Bulgarian languages.

photo © Indrek Mesikepp
Publications

  • Ka jumal on inimene

    poetry

    Tallinn: Kaasaegse Kirjanduse Keskus, 1997

  • Valgete kaantega raamat

    poetry

    Tallinn: F. Serpent, 2000

  • 2004

    poetry

    Tallinn: Tuum, 2004

  • Alasti ja elus

    poetry

    Pärnu: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2008

  • 100% fs

    poetry

    Pärnu: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2012

  • Tätoveerimata inimene

    poetry

    Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2017

Prizes

  • 2004 Estonian Cultural Endowment's Award for Poetry

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