Carsten René Nielsen
NEW TRANSLATION
MINIATURES
'Miniatures’, poems by Carsten René Nielsen and illustrations by Mette Norrie, was published November 2025 by Plamen Press in the United States.
'Miniatures' is translated by American poet David Keplinger.
»What a truly captivating collaboration! It is a delight to immerse oneself in the perfect oddness of Nielsen’s poems, packed with soft pitchforks and hearts that act like clocks and Norrie’s charming illustration-transformations.«
—Matthea Harvey
FORTY-ONE OBJECTS
The prose poems 'Forty-One Objects' was published 2019 by The Bitter Oleander Press in the United States. Longlisted for the 2020 National Translation Award in Poetry from the American Literary Translator's Association.
'Forty-One Objects' is translated by American poet David Keplinger and also contains the Danish versions (first published 2017 as 'Enogfyrre ting').
»Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen injects new vigor into the form with his Forty-One Objects, a bilingual work that pushes the prose poem into ever stranger orbits. [...] Nielsen and Keplinger have created a stunning book. Readers will leave Forty-One Objects wanting more.«
—John Bradley, Rain Taxi
HOUSE INSPECTIONS
The prose poems 'House Inspections' was published 2011 by BOA Editions in the United States.
'House Inspections' is translated by American poet David Keplinger and also contains the Danish versions (first published 2008 as 'Husundersøgelser').
»Nielsen employs many of the same surreal techniques as Russell Edson, but maintains a more objective tone, and typically leaves the reader with a sense of awe […] House Inspections offers tantalizing mysteries for a world all too often gnawing on its own cynicism.«
—John Bradley, Rain Taxi
THE WORLD CUT OUT WITH CROOKED SCISSORS
'The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors – Selected Prose Poems' by Carsten René Nielsen was published October 2007 by New Issues Poetry and Prose in the United States.
'The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors' consists of translations of prose poems from Carsten René Nielsen’s books of poetry published 1998-2005: 'Circles' (1998), 'Clairobscur' (2001) and 'Forty-One Animals' (2005) translated by American poet David Keplinger.
»These poems do much more than blur the line between illusion and reality: they evoke that vibrant contradiction of dreaming in which the real and unreal exist in perfect simultaneity …«
—Nicky Beer, The Georgia Review