Indrek Mesikepp

luuletajad

1 luuletajad | Translations: en lv
2 ***[me synnime haiglates] | Translations: de ru sv lv en ro
3 ***[ma ei karda liblikaid] | Translations: en sv ru de lv ro
4 ***[see võib olla 42 kraadi] | Translations: de en lv ro
5 ***[töötasin arhiivis] | Translations: de ru lv ro
6 ***[on talv. on päev. on kylm.] | Translations: de ru sv lv
7 ***[pohmell me yhises kehas] | Translations: sv en lv
8 ***[kurbus on nagu sitahäda] | Translations: en
9 ***[kui inimene sureb] | Translations: en sv lv
10 ***[yhel ööl ma tajusin surma] | Translations: en

Language: estonian

Translations: english (poets), latvian (Dzejnieki )

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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

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

Categories:

poetry & poets

Translations:

Language: english

poets
reality show

only two contestants left standing
the odds on both are poor
if O in the next show
doesn't lay his 16-year-old girlfriend
and N, that sad loser
whose imminent elimination
was averted by attempted suicide,
if in the next part
he doesn’t submit his divorce papers
then it won’t be enough to repeat
show after show
of DTs
depressions
and pub fights
the game will get boring
the ratings will fall
and this season
will be the poets' last

Translated from Estonian by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov
Miriam Anne McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov

Language: latvian

Dzejnieki
reality-show

palikuši tikai divi cīnītāji ko izvēlēties
abu izredzes neskaidras
ja O arī nākamajā sērijā
savu 16 gadīgo brūti neievilks gultā
un N tas nelaimīgais lūzeris
kuru no izkrišanas
tik tikko paglāba pašnāvības mēģinājums
ja viņš āri nākamajā sērijā
neiesniegs šķiršanās papīrus
tad viņš vairs netiks
no sērijas uz sēriju
no dzeršanas trakuma
no depresijas
un no kautiņiem krogos
spēle kļūs garlaicīga
raidījuma reitings kritīsies
un šī sezona
dzejniekiem būs beidzamā

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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. 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.