The Happy Moment
New essays by one of the most important German-language poets
Jan Wagner is not only gifted but also an enthusiastic poet even in his prose. His passionate portraits of fellow poets ...
Jan Wagner
Jan Wagner, born in 1971 in Hamburg, lives in Berlin. In 2001 he published his first collection of poems Probebohrung im Himmel. This was followed by Guerickes Sperling (2004), Achtzehn Pasteten (2007), Australien (2010), Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern (2012) and the anthology Selbstporträt mit Bienenschwarm (2016). Most recently, his volume of essays Der verschlossene Raum (2017) was published. In 2015 he won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for his poetry collection Regentonnenvariationen (2014), and in 2017 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize.
The Live Butterfly Show
Jan Wagner’s poems have an insatiable effect on the reader: they create a desire for more of these unfathomably clear images, epiphanies and insights – and now, a new volume of ever- ...
moreThe Closed Space
A literary expedition with Jan Wagner: passionate, engaging and clever.
If you were unaware of Jan Wagner’s poetry, you would only ever want to read his essays, which are clever, ...
Self-portrait with a Swarm of Bees
Anthology as self-portrait: Jan Wagner offers us the best of fifteen years of poeticcreativity, presenting himself as a virtuoso poet and master raconteur, a visionary player and a global ...
moreVariations on a Rain Barrel
Jan Wagner takes poetic measure of our natural environment with scientific precision.
The fruits of his excursions – from sloes in the frost to Sicilian donkeys and on to cayman hunts – ...
Owl-Haters in Half-timbered Barns
A year in Rome; it’s hardly surprising that such an acutely sensitive and perceptive poet as Jan Wagner approaches this delightful new challenge with anything less than his habitual ...
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