Ålvik - setting for the poems in this book - is a sleepy little
industrial town, set between the Hardanger Fjord and its own little
mountain for climbing. Behind Ålvik the serious mountains go on forever,
all the length of Norway, till there's almost no more north. The town is
brightly painted and decorated with laughter - a children's town, if you
remember. The artists and the poets, the singers, the musicians - they
live in a fairytale house, where winter is always coming, even when it
has arrived. But spring is pressing too, and summer is an open book,
where the blue goes up forever and a day will never end. The forest is
the poor man's coat. Step in - let other worlds elapse. Read the leaves
as they lie fallen. Follow the trail of light.