Selected Writings

Mirjam Tuominen was a major poet and short story writer, as well as a distinguished essayist, translator and artist. Her work progressed through traditional prose, modernist poetry and abstract painting to Roman Catholic mysticism. She is one of the trio of great Scandinavian women poets, along with Edith Södergran and Karin Boye – all three published in English by Bloodaxe Books. Her stories are often about love’s intensity, its eroticism and tenderness, about jealousy and struggles for po...