Carsten René Nielsen

Danish poet. Born 1966. Lives in Aarhus, the second largest city of Denmark (situated on the peninsula of Jutland). Nine books of poetry in Danish (1989-2008) including the prose poems Circles (1998), Clairobscur (2001), Forty-one Animals (2005) and House Inspections (2008). He has been awarded the Michael Strunge Poetry Prize and has won several fellowships from the Danish State Foundation for the Arts.

Poems by Carsten René Nielsen in English translation (by American poet David Keplinger) have appeared in Mid-American Review (Volume XXII, no. 2, 2002, USA), Agni (No. 55, 2002, USA), Exquisite Corpse (No. 13, Winter 2003, USA), Circumference (Summer/Autumn 2004, USA), Parthenon West Review (Issue Four, 2006, USA), Mississippi Review (Volume 13, no. 1, Winter 2007, USA), Two Lines: World Writing in Translation (XIV, 2007, USA), The Eleventh Muse (2007, USA), Café Irreal (Issue Twenty-Seven, 2008, USA), The Paris Review (no. 191, 2009), Anti (August 2010) and Exile - The Literary Quarterly (Vol. 26, no. 4, 2002, Canada).

In April and May 2006 Carsten René Nielsen took part in the project "Writers' exchange Denmark - Scotland" with the two Scottish writers Anne Donovan and Rodge Glass. The exchange was supported by the Danish Cultural Institute, the Scottish Book Trust and Scottish Poetry Library.

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"... a curtain rises on abbreviated scenes and tableaus that are by turns absurd, witty, disturbing, and delightful ... the unconscious and self-consious merge into one marvelous hybrid." (The Georgia Review about The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors. Read an excerpt from the review here).

Poems in The Paris Review Ten prose poems from Carsten René Nielsen's latest book, House Inspections (Husundersøgelser, 2008) have been published in The Paris Review (no. 191).

Carsten René Nielsen and David Keplinger read from The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York April 2008.
Hear the reading here.

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Forty-one animals The prose poems Enogfyrre dyr (Forty-one Animals) was published in April 2005. Here you can read five poems translated by David Keplinger. > Poems from Forty-one Animals (2005)

Four poems from Forty-one Animals have been published in the 2007 anthology of Two Lines: World Writing in Translation. Poems from Forty-one Animals have also appeared in Parthenon West Review (Issue Four 2006) and in the 2007 issue of The Eleventh Muse.

Circles The prose poems Cirkler (Circles) was published in October 1998. Here you can read five poems translated by David Keplinger. > Poems from Circles (1998) Poems from Circles have been published in magazines in Italy, Germany, Canada and the United States.

Early poetry by Carsten René Nielsen

From Nyborg Ferryport, Saturday (1995):

Decomposition
Another Place
Nyborg Ferryport, Saturday
The House

Translated by Kenneth Tindall