Narvesen made his literary debut in 1975, with the poetry collection , where he asks questions such as "What age am I from / where am I going / which star is my next beginning?" Further collections are (1976), (1977), and (1979), reporting from his travels to places like Switzerland,
Caucasus and
Crete. His collections from the 1980s include (1982), (1985), and (1990). His collection from 1981 is a collection of translated American and English poetry. He issued a translation of poetry by
Walt Whitman into
Norwegian language in 1984 (titled ), in collaboration with
Håvard Rem. ==References==