“Can we already say that Mona Høvring has written this year’s most beautiful collection of poetry? … These poems open up for surprising insights and experiences, taking the reader on a voyage of discovery in beautifully twisted landscapes … The reader must enter at her own peril, but the payoff will be accordingly unexpected”
5/6, Hamar Arbeiderblad

“Girl with Skull is not a book you forget easily … Many of the poems are miniature compositions in a class of their own”
Klassekampen

«In Mona Høvring’s writing, familiar stories are there to be challenged … Reading Mona Høvring can be both liberating and eyeopening. Perhaps because the themes of her writing – love, sexuality, loss, grief – are treated in such an effortless, natural way. Her poems can be irreverent, unpretentious, bordering on the colloquial – and still maintain an undercurrent of seriousness. They can be dripping with sorrow or bask in big words, but still move with lightness … familiar stories and themes are given a ny resonance, a new horizon, a new content to navigate after”
Morgenbladet

“Iridiscent mother-of-pearl shining poetry from a distinctive voice … Høvring is a distinctive voice in the contemporary choir of Norwegian writers … her new book of poetry can be read as a running story crystallized through poetic prisms … The themes are also close to the same as in Høvring’s previous books: They deal with growing up, the difficulties of adolescence with longing and desire pulling in many directions … what Høvring is doing is pure poetry. For instance, what might otherwise have been a cheap pun is transformed into a strange fable, a tiny fairy-tale”
5/6, Stavanger Aftenblad

“It’s a joy to read a writer as playful as Mona Høvring … The image seems to be taken from the nice books for young girls of the past. In this concrete case, the illustration is from a Swedish Christmas story from the 1930s. This can be seen as typical of this writer, who plays so brilliantly on contradictions and contrasts, which is very apparent in this new book, where the borders between poetry and story are always flexible. Mona Høvring insists on her own style. She does so with charm and joy, and, when she is at her best, with matchless command of language … an unusually vital piece of writing. There is both glow, hope and sensuousness in Mona Høvring’s writing. And also a few doses of rage”
Dagsavisen