Morten Søndergaard |

For the first time ever in London, Morten Søndergaard’s Wordpharmacy will be exhibited for Steven Fowler’s Fjender project.

From March 15th -31st, The Hardy Tree gallery, just behind Kings Cross St Pancras, will be turned into a fully functioning poetic chemist’s, a pharmacy for the avant garde poet, replete with stocked shelves, white-coated pharmacist and a near endless supply of word-drugs.

There will be a special reading/preview on Thursday March 20th, 7.30pm, at the Hardy Tree gallery. Free entry. A half dozen British based poets have been commissioned to write, or conceive of, original works that respond to the ideas and concepts of the project. On this evening brand new work from Alison Gibb, David Berridge, Claire Trevien, Andy Spragg, Prudence Chamberlain, Fabian MacPherson & of course, Morten Søndergaard himself will be shared.

Representative of a golden generation of Danish poets, Morten Søndergaard is as versatile a poet as there is currently writing in the synthesised Northern European style of the 21st century. Having gained a wide reputation across Europe and the US for his organic adaptation of poetic form, his output over the last few decades has been varied and remarkable. A true blueprint for the future of European letters, he is as comfortable with verse as with sound poetry and his highly humourous, ethical and sensory poetry is a major contribution to Northern European poetics. In a typically generous interview, we present the 48th of the Maintenant series

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-48-morten-søndergaard/

Accompanying the interview are four of Morten’s poems, translated into English by Barbara Haveland

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/four-poems-morten-søndergaard