Literature and Fiction · Hardback

The Third

Norwegian title: Den tredje

M. Seppola Simonsen

Imagine that you / float between two truths, writes M. Seppola Simonsen in their new poetry collection, and that this weightless, exposed position makes one untrue. Imagine then a bodyless body, a wordless language. And try to explain what and who you are, to a world which doesn't want to have you explained. The Third challenges its own language to find, and to embrace, a third position, between him and her, between right and wrong, between power and nature. A third position threatened by violence and isolation and hate and namelessness. We see and we have seen it, time and again. The poet attempts to do something about this. To find joy, and beauty, and strength in togetherness.