We have enjoyed some quite interesting guest bloggers here. That has given one half of the Poetry Ride headquarters the necessary peace to relocate back home to Finland. That has also given us all a chance to hear some different voices here. I think that will continue, and you will hear more from the former poetry riders and other friends of the festival.

As Ingmara wrote in the last post, Heli Laaksonen’s collection in Latvian (or almost) “Kad gos smei”, translated by  Guntars Godiņš, has been selling like hot bread. Two prints of the book have already been sold out! It makes me really happy to see that the connections made in the Ride bear beautiful fruits even years later. And it seems that not only the readers, but also Heli herself had a great time touring Latvia. If you are capable of reading the Turku dialect of Finnish, go and see her travel story in Turun Sanomat www.ts.fi/kulttuuri/kolumnit/

But before you go and enjoy some southwestern Finnish, like us in Facebook http://www.facebook.com/PoetryRide . We have had some discussions about in which language to exist there and decided to have a page in English.  Operating in all languages would slow even us down ( oh well, I must admit I’m that as a Finn I’m already slow as a Moomin on a bicycle..).  So English it is in Facebook. At the moment, I cannot promise you any gadgets or other prizes for liking us. But I promise it would make me really happy