I attended the https://www.hostscena.no/ festival in Alesund, Norway to work on some future projects that I hope will grow out of the European Poetry Festival. It was an extraordinary experience because the work was quite consistently daring and radical in a way I would not have expected, given the scope of the festival and it’s location. All credit has to go to Siri Forberg and her team, who are really taking risks and never doing the easy thing. Watching full contact boxing in a town hall while a falsetto singer serenaded the audience is just of many things I shan’t forget. Moreover I got to spend time with many of the Norwegian poets I have come to count as friends over the last decade, such as Bard Torgersen, Jon Stale Ritland, Endre Ruset, Bjorn Vatne and others.