Mette Moestrup
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METTE MOESTRUP (MeMo) is a poet and writer. Her practice includes 
translation, performance, multimedia art, collaborative works and essay writing. 
She has published five poetry collections, most recently To the Most Beautiful 
(English translation, 2024). Her critically acclaimed works have been translated 
into several languages and she has received a number of awards, including 
Montana’s Literature Prize, the Aarestrup Medal, the Beatrice Prize 
and the Danish Arts Foundation's Lifetime Honorary Grant. She is also
a member of the Danish Academy. She lives in Copenhagen.

Contact → mettemoestrup@mail.dk

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New colletions of poems out May 27th 2025! 

Butterfly Nebula is a large, sensuous and thought-provoking collection of poems about metabolism, visions and disease. In seven interwoven parts, Mette Moestrup writes red-glittering, ritual and hymn-like poems about the butterfly-shaped gland that controls metabolism. She has had an autoimmune metabolic disorder for seven years. From this physical experience, she sings about the metabolism that connects all species. And laments the broken metabolism between homo sapiens and earth. There are wild and virtuoso leaps from the small stones on the beach to the butterfly-shaped nebula that gives the book its name. There are transformational communities and healing seances. Insomnia songs, blood divinations. And a red UFO! In Mette Moestrup’s new collection of poetry, euphoria is mixed with evil laughter and deep sorrow. And tenderness is mixed with mystery. Guess riddles, follow clues, get lost – in Butterfly Nebula anything can happen.