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The
Assessment
 Author:
Jan Oskar Hansen
Binding: Paperback (pp: 139) ISBN:
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Jan Oskar Hansen is a poet, story teller and
seafarer, born in Stavanger, Norway. He joined
the merchant navy at 15 and spent most of his
life at sea until settling in the early 90's in
Portugal. His poetry has been widely published
in hard copy and online, worldwide. Reviewers
have generally commented that a love and
honoring of living things stands out in Hansen's
work, and deep humility; that it reveals with
unflinching honesty man's shortcomings in his
efforts to love, telling what there is to tell
in a first person, deeply resident universal
voice.The poet is widely read and fluent in
several languages, knowledge often acquired at
night during his many years at sea. He chose to
write primarily in English following
enthusiastic reception of his work from
English-speaking editors and readers.
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Cracks in the Mirror
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Jan Oskar Hansen
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(pp: 146) ISBN: 978-81-8253-132-1 Availability: In Stock
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Jan Oskar Hansen is a poet, story teller and seafarer, born in Stavanger, Norway. He joined the merchant navy at 15 and spent most of his life at sea until settling in the early 90's in Portugal. His poetry has been widely published in hard copy and online, worldwide. Reviewers have generally commented that a love and honoring of living things stands out in Hansen's work, and deep humility; that it reveals with unflinching honesty man's shortcomings in his efforts to love, telling what there is to tell in a first person, deeply resident universal voice.
Crack
in the Mirror has a variety of scenes from
many places where Jan has apparently set foot.
This volume will take the reader to Spain;
the Caribbean; Paris in September where it’s
melancholia; a wedding in Brussels; September in
Norway where he remembers walking home after a
drink of whiskey; Egypt and the Suez Canal;
Portugal in spring, where the snow is pure and
God’s footsteps are visible; Rome, where a Roman
Centurion soldier encounters unseen terrorists;
Argentina, where he hides in the belly of a dead
horse; and Denmark, where he enjoys dancing with a
maiden of brown eyes and a promising glint. These
and many more incredible and memorable adventures
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Homeward Bound
Poems, prose, Zen and Senryu
 Author:
Jan Oskar Hansen
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Jan Oskar Hansen is a poet, story teller and seafarer, born in Stavanger, Norway. He joined the merchant navy at 15 and spent most of his life at sea until settling in the early 90's in Portugal. His poetry has been widely published in hard copy and online, worldwide. Reviewers have generally commented that a love and honoring of living things stands out in Hansen's work, and deep humility; that it reveals with unflinching honesty man's shortcomings in his efforts to love, telling what there is to tell in a first person, deeply resident universal voice. The poet is widely read and fluent in several languages, knowledge often acquired at night during his many years at sea. He chose to write primarily in English following enthusiastic reception of his work from English-speaking editors and readers. His poems have been published in over 20 literary magazines worldwide, including: Hudson Review, USA, Skyline, USA, Skald, Wales, La rue Bella, England, The Bards, England, War is a dangerous place, England, The Black Mountain Review, Ireland, ARS Poetica India, India, Metvere Muse, India, Poets International, India, Braquemard, England, Fvirefly Magazine, USA, Pphoo, India, Taj Mahal Review, India, Remark Magazine, USA, Journal Of Anglo-Scandianvian Poetry, England.
HOMEWARD BOUND is one in the triptych: End Of A Voyage, Homeward Bound, Homecoming.
Hansen invites us to share his life’s adventures as a high seas explorer with brilliant insights at once salty, gritty, perceptive, sensitive, philosophical, spiced with irony. His love, respect and understanding of both nature and humanity with all its foibles, vividly described. He shocks us into the seafaring life of danger with humour and pathos. A master of prose, poetry, senryu and tanka, resulting from his studies at sea under the influence of many lands and ports.
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Homecoming.prose, poetry and Senryu
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Jan Oskar Hansen
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(pp: 140) ISBN: 978-81-8253-121-5 Availability: In Stock
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Jan Oskar Hansen is a poet,
story teller and seafarer, born in Stavanger,
Norway. He joined the merchant navy at 15 and
spent most of his life at sea until settling in
the early 90's in Portugal. His poetry has been
widely published in hard copy and online,
worldwide. Reviewers have generally commented that
a love and honoring of living things stands out in
Hansen's work, and deep humility; that it reveals
with unflinching honesty man's shortcomings in his
efforts to love, telling what there is to tell in
a first person, deeply resident universal voice.
The poet is widely read and
fluent in several languages, knowledge often
acquired at night during his many years at sea. He
chose to write primarily in English following
enthusiastic reception of his work from
English-speaking editors and readers.
His poems have been published
in over 20 literary magazines worldwide,
including:
Hudson Review, USA, Skyline,
USA, Skald, Wales, La rue Bella, England, The
Bards, England, War is a dangerous place, England,
The Black Mountain Review, Ireland, ARS Poetica
India, India, Metvere Muse, India, Poets
International, India, Braquemard, England,
Fvirefly Magazine, USA, Pphoo, India, Taj Mahal
Review, India, Remark Magazine, USA, Journal Of
Anglo-Scandianvian Poetry, England.
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JAN
OSKAR HANSEN
HOMECOMING...Prose,
Poetry, Senryu
By
a Norwegian sailor - stunning, candid
reflections of a life on sea and land.
Published
by Cyberwit.net, 2007, ISBN
978-81-8253-121-5, First Edition, 140 pages,
paperback, $15,00.
HOMECOMING
is the third one of a triptych of poems: End
Of A Voyage, Homeward Bound, Homecoming.
Hansen
takes us on an unforgettable journey through his
life as a high seas roller. An adventure of
brilliant insights. His love, respect and
understanding of both nature and humanity with all
its foibles. He shocks us into another world
with humour and pathos. All masterfully
written in prose, poetry and senryu of literary
signifance.
Jan
Oskar Hansen makes us his shipmate and companion
on a journey of a lifetime where we experience
through his writing, each powerful, immediate,
enlightening observations. His fresh
individuality leads us to worlds of wonder,
delights us in earthy pleasures with a
philosophical twist. We become part of the
tapestry he has woven of his multifaceted
experiences.
We
feel his emotions and passion for the written word
as he witnesses many cultures, learns new
languages and grows his imagination which is at
once 'dazzling', thought provoking, candid,
richly spiced with intimacy, dream, reality and
vast visual vistas of profound awareness of nature
in all its vitality.
In
conclusion, here is an example of what you will
find in HOMECOMING, Jan Oskar Hansen's most
recent brilliant achievement.
THE
OLD TART
She's
and old tramp ship now, can't afford to hire
proper crew, only harbour dregs, to take her to
the next port. For some of us she's home
we try to keep her afloat a lick of paint here and
there when it can be bought cheap or stolen from a
warehouse, that's getting hard now that all
cargo are shipped by containers, locked and
sealed. She was riding yellow swells, off
Hock van Holland, when news come she's to be
sold as scrap iron the dregs are glad to be ashore
bellies full of rum king. For us who loved
the old lady it's sad day, for us she will be
the last ship, we know well that we don't fit
the new merchant navy regime, roll on roll off no
time for poker and a little whisky.
SENRYU
The
angry ocean
Left
its irate foam behind
In
secret coves
LOVES
LAMENT
In the morning breeze I can hear you voice
softly
calling my name
in
the haze I can see
the
contours of you face
In
the meadow's stream
I
hear you laughter and
the
water in the well is as clear as your tears
the
day you said farewell
All
in nature reminds me of you,
transient
our love, like the flowering almond tree;
beauty
never lasts and it was yesteryear.
HAPPY
ENDING?
Love
is overrated
The
cynical sardonically say
But
it keeps us sane
Literary
review (2008) by Barbara Elizabeth Mercer, Author,
Poet, Visual Artist (
Canada
) based upon 'Homecoming', published by
cyberwit.net, 2007, ISBN978-81-8253-121-15 First
Edition
JAN
OSKAR HANSEN (
Portugal
). His poems have been published in 20
literary magazines worldwide, including:
Hudson
Review, USA, Skyline, USA, Skald, Wales, La rue
Bella, England, The Bards, England, War is a
dangerous place, England, The Black Mountain
Review, Ireland, ARS Poetica India, India,
Braquemard, England, Firefly Magazine, USA, Pphoo,
India, Taj Mahal Review, India, Remark Magazine,
USA, Journal of Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry,
England.
His
poems appear in many anthologies.
Collections 'Letters from Portugal' (bewrite
books) Bristol, 'La Strada' Lapwing
Publishers), Belfast, 'End of Voyage' (WFP New
York), 'Marilyn Monroe Remembered'
Erbacce Press, Liverpool, 'The Fairground'
Ranch, India (out of print now).
BARBARA
ELIZABETH MERCER (CANADA) Poet, Visual Artist,
Author of 4 books of poetry published by
Cyberwit,net (
India
), SECRETS, 2008, LEGACY, 2007, SELF PORTRAIT,
2006, MYSTIC WILLS, 2005. Co-author with
Steve Chering,
London
,
UK
, book of poetry WHEN POETS COLLIDE, Pub. Lulu,com,
USA
, Her paintings, in Public Collections:
University
of
Toronto Art Centre
, Imperial Oil, Robert McLaughlin Gallery,
Oshawa
,
Canada
. Many international private collections.
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