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Saamises
valgus voolab maapinnal
kergelt nagu vesi kivilt kivile
jahe ja läbipaistev
muutuv, otsiv ja püsitu –
alles saamises
nagu sa isegi.
kergelt nagu vesi kivilt kivile
jahe ja läbipaistev
muutuv, otsiv ja püsitu –
alles saamises
nagu sa isegi.
56 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2015
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About the author
Maarja Pärtna
18 books4 followersMaarja Pärtna is a writer, translator, and editor. She was born in 1986 in northeastern Estonia. Pärtna has studied English language and literature at the University of Tartu and defended her master's degree in world literature. Her first collection "Rohujuurte juures" (At the Grassroots) was published in 2010.
Pärtna's writing addresses social-ecological themes. Her fourth collection of poems, "Vivaarium" (Vivarium, 2019), combines historical trauma with climate anxiety and articulates a growing sense of danger coming from biodiversity loss. "Vivaarium" delves further into poetry that has begun to be dominated by environmental concerns and the time-pressured cycle of human ecological decisions. An English pamphlet with the same title was also published in the UK in 2020.
Her fifth collection "Elav linn" (The Living City, 2022) focuses on urban nature and the possibility of better coexistence with non-human animals, as well as the author's childhood memories of growing up in the Estonian oil shale basin, surrounded by artificially distorted landscapes.
Her sixth collection "Ülestõusmise serval" (On the Brink of Uprising, 2024) connects experiences of precarity with the broader ecological devastation wrought by the growth-oriented economic system.
Alongside poetry, Pärtna continues to develop these topics in her essays.
Pärtna has worked as an editor of both a literary magazine and a cultural newspaper, and edited several poetry collections. Her poems have been translated into twelve languages. She herself has translated essays by Kathleen Jamie, Margaret Atwood, Edward Said, and Robert Macfarlane.
Maarja Pärtna has been awarded the Gustav Suits Poetry Prize, the Juhan Liiv Poetry Prize and the title of Tartu's Young Cultural Bearer. In 2024, she was chosen as the City Writer of Tartu. She is a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 2015. Pärtna has also participated in several international UNESCO Cities of Literature projects and organised literary events both in Estonia and abroad.
Pärtna's writing addresses social-ecological themes. Her fourth collection of poems, "Vivaarium" (Vivarium, 2019), combines historical trauma with climate anxiety and articulates a growing sense of danger coming from biodiversity loss. "Vivaarium" delves further into poetry that has begun to be dominated by environmental concerns and the time-pressured cycle of human ecological decisions. An English pamphlet with the same title was also published in the UK in 2020.
Her fifth collection "Elav linn" (The Living City, 2022) focuses on urban nature and the possibility of better coexistence with non-human animals, as well as the author's childhood memories of growing up in the Estonian oil shale basin, surrounded by artificially distorted landscapes.
Her sixth collection "Ülestõusmise serval" (On the Brink of Uprising, 2024) connects experiences of precarity with the broader ecological devastation wrought by the growth-oriented economic system.
Alongside poetry, Pärtna continues to develop these topics in her essays.
Pärtna has worked as an editor of both a literary magazine and a cultural newspaper, and edited several poetry collections. Her poems have been translated into twelve languages. She herself has translated essays by Kathleen Jamie, Margaret Atwood, Edward Said, and Robert Macfarlane.
Maarja Pärtna has been awarded the Gustav Suits Poetry Prize, the Juhan Liiv Poetry Prize and the title of Tartu's Young Cultural Bearer. In 2024, she was chosen as the City Writer of Tartu. She is a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 2015. Pärtna has also participated in several international UNESCO Cities of Literature projects and organised literary events both in Estonia and abroad.
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December 11, 2020
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üks üürike hingetõmme -
ja juba ongi järgmised kolmkümmend aastat
su elust ära otsustatud
aga teada saad seda alles hiljem
tagantjärele.
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üks üürike hingetõmme -
ja juba ongi järgmised kolmkümmend aastat
su elust ära otsustatud
aga teada saad seda alles hiljem
tagantjärele.
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