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Formula

This is Markus Midré’s fourth collection of poetry since his 1995 debut, THEORY OF A THOUSAND SHADOWS. With the poems in this book he returns to the roots of his own poetic praxis, to develop it further in a different direction. Through writing that is awake, never finished, listening, the poems approach a greater uneasiness, more sharply based oppositions.

Praise for FORMULA:

“A small gem … Markus Midré’s FORMULA is among those books that remain with the reader long after they are finished, because they touch on something of great importance – in this case important human fears and longings.”
(Aftenposten)

“As a poet Markus Midré is among our most interesting … a collection that … impresses with its formally simple, but intellectually deep approach to one of our times’ fundamental problems.”
(Adresseavisen)

“a powerful European collection, which articulates the moral uneasiness of being a European, in a pinching language that still somehow pleases. This is quite simply very good poetry.”
(Kulturnytt, NRK P2)

First published: 2003, Forlaget Oktober
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