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The Flock and the Shadow

The Flock and the Shadow shows clearly how closely Eldrid Lunden’s poetry is tied to nature. It seems to have burst forth from impressions and reflections in an immediate and reciprocal process. Ideas and images are linked in a way which is quite different from the way that discursive poetry and metaphorical lyricism function.

In this volume Lunden continues to employ another of his characteristic hallmarks, the parallel use of very dissimilar poetical discourses, as if the writer were living several poetical lives at the same time.

The Flock and the Shadow is about humanity’s exposure and vulnerability, and about the joy of living. About the here and now, and about our own time many years ahead. About death, cosmos and eternity. Big issues? Yes, indeed.

Praise for The Flock and the Shadow:

”Lunden at her best… And then those who have followed this authorship since her début towards the end of the 60s know that we are dealing with a work that takes its toll on the reader, but also a work that gives infinitely much in return to those who choose to enter it…a substantial book of poetry that the reader can look forward to”
(Dag og Tid)

“Cool and sensual…perhaps this autumn’s most essential collection of poetry”
(Dagbladet)

First published: 2005, Aschehoug Fiction

Eldrid Lunden: Biography and bibliography