CigaretteStockholm. Early summer, 1989. Johan is a young waiter working at the Hard Rock Caf. His nights are filled with parties, drugs, booze and MTV. An endless chase of the next girl, the next high the next music video. The first book in a loose trilogy, when Cigarette was first published in Sweden it heralded the arrival of a bold new voice in contemporary nordic literature. A troubadour of 1990s metropolitan nightlife, Nordisk Books is delighted to

Denouncing the ruthless machismo of combat with quiet intelligence

then on through many of his further collections up to his final works in the early 1970s

Aftermath is a profound attempt to regain trust after violence and to recapture a politics of hope through a determined dream of abolition

Lauren Bravo

A significant number of his poems

’ Language is ‘consumed and mated’

” Gollum: “Where would you be without me

as well as a jolly thumb in the eyes of contemporary screen-life and digital celebrity

He pioneered its development as an academic discipline and is the author of a number of significant works

Pam Uschuk

a terrific read

The illegitimate son of composer Samuel Wesley