Jan Oskar Hansen

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.

Bibliography

Books

Include "Murmur From The East" (Lapwing Publications, Belfast 2008), "End Of The Voyage" (Water Forest Press, US 2007), "La Strada" (Lapwing Publications, Belfast 2006), "Lunch in Denmark" (Lightningsource, UK 2005) and "Letters from Portugal" (BeWrite Books, UK 2003). Both "Letters from Portugal" and "Lunch in Denmark" are available at Amazon.com.

Magazines

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

Anthologies

His poems appear in the following anthologies:
*"Shaken & Stirred" (Bewrite Books, UK, 2003)
*"Routes – Twelve Poets" (Bewrite Books, UK, 2004)
*"A Road Less Traveled" (Bewrite Books, UK, 2005)
*"Poetry from the Far Corners" (Bewrite Books, UK, 2005)
*"Listening to the birth of crystal " (Paulapublishing, 2004) England
*"Peoplespoet 2" (Paulapublishing, 2005) England
*"The Review of contemporary poetry" (Bluechrome, 2005) England
*"The book of hopes and dreams" (Bluechrome, 2006) England

External links

[http://poetrychambers.blogspot.com/ "AucklandPoetry.com"]

Work appears in many literary collections and journals online, including the following:
* [http://members.cox.net/joneve/6sub.html"Poetry Soul to Soul"]
* [http://web.mac.com/joneve/The_Peregrine_Muse/hansen.html "The Peregrine Muse"]
* [http://mgversion2.free.fr/esect/mgv2_en_01/hansen.html"Mgversion2']
* [http://www.othervoicespoetry.org/vol4/hansen/index.html "Other Voices"]
* [http://www.literati-magazine.com/magazine_features/winter05/poetry/jan-hansen.html "Literati"]
* [http://www.art-arena.com/johansen.htm "World Poems/Art Arena"]
* [http://poetryinacup.org/janoskarhansen/ "Poetry in a Cup"]
* [http://www.interpoetry.com/janoskarhansen6.html "Interpoetry"]