Louise Mønster
Louise Mønster was born in 1972, earned her PhD, and is now associate professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. She has, among other titles, published Ny nordisk. Lyrik i det 21. århundrede (New Nordic: Poetry in the 21st Century) in 2016, Mødesteder. Om Tomas Tranströmers og Henrik Nordbrandts poesi (Meeting Places: On the Poetry of Tomas Tranströmer and Henrik Nordbrandt) in 2013, and Nedbrydningens opbyggelighed. Litterære historier i det 20. århundredes nordiske modernistiske lyrik (The Constructiveness of Destruction: Literary Histories in 20th Century Nordic Modernist Poetry) in 2009, as well as a large number of anthologies and articles about Danish and Nordic literature. Louise Mønster is an editor of the literary journal Passage (Arcade) and of Nordisk poesi. Tidsskrift for lyrikkforskning (Scandinavian Poetry: Journal of Poetry Research).
Reading List
Contemporary Danish Poetry: <br>A Brief Introduction
Providing a brief introduction to contemporary Danish poetry isn’t easy. To do so is to demarcate a field which is characterized by the fact that it exceeds its own boundaries. It is to frame an area which cannot be addressed in isolation, but which is in continual interaction with the world around it. The characteristics […]