Danish Northwest: Hygge Poems from the Outskirts

By Peter Graarup Westergaard

Danish Northwest is a poetry collection that shows “hygge” in its various aspects as practiced or rendered in the outskirts of Denmark, more precisely in the northwestern region of Jutland called Thy. The poems were originally published in Danish and in a dialect called “thybomål”. 
As with any translation, the English version can be considered in a sense a new collection of poems given the adjustments and additions needed to capture the essence of the original. This new rendering has been achieved through a collaboration between the author and the Irish poet, Mary-Jane Holmes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Release date: Jun 21, 2019
• ISBN: 9781838599522

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Translations of the epitaphs: Steen Steensen Blicher: HinKyto, Ludvig Holberg: James Champbell/Frederic Schenck, Jens Peter Jacobsen: Anne Grabow and Hanna Astrup Larsen, Adam Oehlenschläger: S.D Rodholm, Knud Sørensen: Peter Graarup Westergaard. The Handel quote originates from Laetitia Matilda Hawkins.

Hanne and Christen Westergaard

Contents

Preface

PAST

My Father’s Farm

Ode to Craftsmen

The Accident at Øster Skaarup I

The Accident at Øster Skaarup II

The Bottomless Pond

Time Moves

You Can Be Happy

Chr. Westergaard, 1884-1969

Love and Gossip

Farmhand at Nordenfjord University in Skyum

The Yellow Green Wallpaper

An Über-rational Destiny

First Love

Torsted Romance

Folk Dance in Hillerslev Village Hall

Foolishness Exists

Flies from the Dunghill

Vilsbøl Paranoia

On Special Prerogatives Among