https://www.ouvroir.fr/deshima/index.php?id=679 The website of the Swedish publishing house Bonniers presents Tomas Tranströmer as “one of the most genuinely Swedish poets, masterful in his visions of interior and exterior coldness and barrenness”. An acclaimed master of the short poem, Tranströmer’s 1974 Östersjöar (Baltics, in the English translation) is his most ambitious attempt to write a long poem. It is also the only one of his books in which he names and thematises a precise geographical reality. This article offers a reading of Baltics that shows how the geographical space of the Baltic sea contributes to the construction of a deeply personal poetical territory of which it becomes an essential part. The form Tranströmer gives to his longest poem is intimately linked to the themes which it develops while making of Baltics a central book in the author’s poetical production as a whole. Numéros en texte intégral Géographies et imaginaires Géographies et imaginaires fr mer., 01 oct. 2025 12:05:46 +0200 mer., 03 déc. 2025 10:57:27 +0100 https://www.ouvroir.fr/deshima/index.php?id=679 0