”Playfulness and gravity side by side. Religiosity, Jesus, and a gathering feminist gaze. A book that lasts.”
Haugesund Avis
”Mona Høvring is distinguishable as a unique voice in Norwegian contemporary poetry. Her fifth collection, The Squirrel and the Rickety Bridge, establishes the position of a poet going her own way … Undeniably beautiful.”
Drammens Tidende
”[Høvring] distinguishes herself by a rare linguistic drive, splendid compositional ability, and an elaborate cast of characters… The poems are highly original, often funny, playful, linguistically steady and artful… A definitive high point in Høvring’s complex poetic body of work.”
VG
”Mona Høvring’s poetry is like no other Norwegian poetry. It is deceitful in a most eminent way. Childhood is never the same again after this book. … She combines childhood and death, and writes innocence and ruin into an agonizing combination – in a poetic universe that is both asleep and awake simultaneously. It is never night nor day, but both at the same time.”
Dagbladet (The 3 best books of 2010)
