"Lou Ice gave a witty and funny set of performance poetry that captivated the audience from the start. Her warmth, friendliness and quirky humour made her a hit with everyone"
– Dick Douglas, organiser A Literation, Cellar Arts House, Worthing, UK
On the international poetry scene Louise Halvardsson is also known as Lou Ice. She started to write and perform poetry in English in 2004, and since then Lou Ice has been on stage in Brighton, London, Edinburgh, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Odense, Berlin, New York, Phnom Penh and Auckland. In 2011 she won two slam competitions: Bang Said the Gun in London and Hammer & Tongue in Brighton.
She has hosted events at Hove Library, like Every Day is Poetry Day and has facilitated workshops for young adults at Brighton & Hove Libraries. In 2012 she assisted with poetry workshops for Shake the Dust, UK's biggest Youth Poetry Slam project run by spoken word organisation Apples & Snakes. The team she was coaching reached the final in London as a part of Cultural Olympics.
In 2019 she was part of a spoken word/performance project in Cambodia hosted by International PEN and Möte Kambodja-Sverige. She has also been a guest at several international poetry festivals such as Merci Poesi in Gothenburg and Poesifest in Jönköping.
Her poetry often touches the absurdity of everyday life, sexuality, identity and creativity and appeals both to adults and teenagers. Her latest collection in Swedish deals with the relationship between a grandmother and her grandchild.
Louse Halvardsson now lives in her home country Sweden, runs the collective Poesiwerken and has published several novels and poetry collections, including Swenglish, a documentary novel that is available in English.
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