Juhani Ahvenjärvi

Juhani Ahvenjärvi (b. 1965) is a Tampere-based poet. He has taught creative writing in Tampere University among others.
Ahvenjärvi´s fifth collection of poems Liituvarjo (”Chalkshade”) continues in landscapes familiar to the poet and the visual worlds of language. The humour of the poems and momentary flashes of linguistic lightness alternate with the weight of observation. Ahvenjärvi writes matter-of-factly; his lines are neither tricky nor showy. The collection presents a specific image of Finland in painfully apt verse.

Publication Date February 2010