High Park Screaming

I will perform with Paul Dutton at the coming Scream Literary Festival, for the second year in a row. The festival takes place in Toronto, Canada, from July 2-13 - and I will read on the last day, mainstage: Scream in High Park. Expected turnout is 750-1.000 people (!!!) Amongst other people performing (the list is not complete yet): Oana Avasilichioaei, Wakefield Brewster, Margaret Christakos, Peter Cullen, Jeramy Dodds, Lisa Foad, Susan Holbrook, Ryan Kamstra, Andrew Pyper og Adam Sol. This year’s theme is ‘The Book is Dead’. More information at thescream.ca.



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New News (stuff, essays)

First: Mind the Sound, writings about the 17th century Icelandic nonsense/sound-poet Æri-Tobbi and my own work from his writing. Published in aslongasittakes and (in finnish translation) in Nuori Voima magazine.

Second: Hay-grinder of the greenpeace-kitten earth-channels of the desert-asphalt sugar-free beach-found transparent salt-Coke - a column about ‘kenning’ metaphors in skaldic poetry. Published in The Reykjavík Grapevine.

Third: Focus on Iceland: The fanatic self-image. A short lecture on the self-image of Iceland and Icelanders, given at the Haga-Helia College, Helsinki.

Fourth: Icelandic Art Makes Me Feel Nothing At All. A column for the Reykjavík Grapevine, about art criticism and its ambivalence.

Also: Hnefi eða vitstola orð. Video-poem (in Icelandic).



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Stanza literature-bar in Malmö

I went to Malmö, Sweden, at the end of March to read at Stanza literature-bar. The event took place at Inkonst art-happening-house, and amongst other participants was multilingual poet Cia Rinner, the grand old king of Swedish concrete, Bengt Emil Johnson, his wonderfully performative wife, Kerstin Ståhl, and the poetry/arts group 3 Advokater, with Pär Thörn, Peder Alexis Olsson, Ola Stahl, and Calle Lindh. I read from the dictator-series, the crisis sonnet and two dialect-poems (danish and swedish (skånska)).

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