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 1990s 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.
Include Livorno My Lovely (Cyberwit Press, India 2009), Murmur From The East ( Lapwing Publications , Belfast 2008), Cracks in the Mirror (Cyberwit Press, India 2008), Homeward Bound (Cyberwit Press, India 2008), Homecoming (Cyberwit Press, India 2007), End Of The Voyage (Water Forest Press, USA 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 .
His poems have been published in over 20 literary magazines worldwide, including: