For Grandma’s Heart

The launch of Lauri Sommer’s poetry collection For Grandma’s Heart will take place at 19.00 on the 10th of November in Tampere Maja. According to the author, the seventh collection of poems deals with the continuation of the innermost feeling in times of change. The book contains lyrical depictions of nature characteristic to the Võrumaa region in Estonia, sentimental poetry, dreams and perhaps some other stylistic fusions that don’t yet have a name. This is a collection of poems with a specific style that have been written over 7-8 years.

Lauri Sommer celebrates the publication of his seventh poetry book with a small concert accompanied by pictures of South-Estonian landscapes, the poems’ birthplace. He states: “My Grandmother Praskovja Kõrvemägi is on the cover of this collection of poems. This is her in her maiden years. Something about her continues to explore and live inside of me.”

Lauri Sommer is an Estonain author, musician and literary scholar. He is also a member of the Erakkond group and folk music bands such as Liinatśuraq, Kago and Ütsiotsõ.

In 2014, he published his largest work of prose Sealpool sood, accompanied by an unofficial soundtrack that contains everything from medieval music to pieces composed by Sommer himself.