Bruno K. Öijer
Swedish writer (born 1951)
Bruno Keats Öijer (born 26 November 1951 in Linköping, Sweden) is a contemporary Swedish poet.
Biography
Öijer was born in Linköping in 1951. His first collection of poems, Sång för anarkismen (lit. Song for Anarchism) was published in 1973.
Öijer is perhaps most appreciated as a stage performance poet, and he has made notable appearances in front of large audiences. During the 1970s, he was a part of poetry group Vesuvius.
In 1986, Öijer, along with Bryn Settels, released the LP Shade Coming. He has on several occasions collaborated with the Pork Quartet, which played with him, among other things, when performing "Sketches for one of the speeches of death" on television. On 6 June 2003, he performed in conjunction with the group Kent's concert at Stockholm Stadium. Öijer's poems have also been set to music by several Swedish composers.
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