Indrek Mesikepp

***[pohmell me yhises kehas]

Language: estonian
Translations: swedish (***[baksmällan i vår gemensamma kropp]), english (***[the hangover in our shared body]), latvian (***[paģiras mūsu kopīgajā ķermenī])

***[pohmell me yhises kehas]

pohmell me yhises kehas
lae all nagu udu
ja esikus ukselingil
nagu raske tolm
akna taga on unenägu
tooli peal Su sukad
põrandal midagi minu
voodi õhtuni tegemata
uuesti soojuse sisse
pohmell me yhises kehas
hoiab meid
mu naine

masin on kõrgel ja kaugel

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. 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

Awards

  • 2004 Estonian Cultural Endowment's Award for Poetry

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