“Beautiful and painful, poems about a mother who becomes dement.”
Espen Grønlie, Dagbladet, Books of the Year 2022
“Christiansen moves and impresses with these poems about dementia … quiet, outstanding poems that brings us close to a mother on the threshold of death … This is a book that moves and impresses me with its feather-light sincerity and elegant language … The emotional pressure of the intimate relationship gives Christiansen’s subtle, rather sober poems an enormous glow … It deserves a wide readership and addresses the subject of dementia in a beautiful, often heartbreaking manner”
Endre Ruset, Vårt Land
“Christiansen’s poetry is filled with wonder and wisdom … The poems make their most powerful impressions when the mother’s dementia causes a kind of instant poetry, in dialogues with her son. Collisions between sentences that otherwise can have a poetic effect, comes across as a realistic depiction of a mother who can’t “recognize herself” or “remember the aims of her movements” … Christiansen’s poetry can be almost deceptively simple, in that the sentences taken separately are close to everyday speech. Taken together, however, the poems express something different than everyday insights”
Tom Egil Hverven, Klassekampen
