Archive for May, 2007

Apparently there’s a lit-clique spectre haunting Sweden. One Johan Lundberg has written an article in Expressen, expressing expressively his express opinion that a small clique of rabid avant-gardists has taken over swedish poetry. Evidently these malefic stasi-like langpo figures not only publish their own magazine, but write reviews for bigger media as well. And... »

Pennsound plugged in Icelandic newspaper. Ran into an interesting article, via Susanne Christensen, in Ett lysande namn by Sigrid Nurbo about Swedish language poetry, most notably Lars Mikael Raatamaa, Jörgen Gassilewski and Maria Silkeberg. Reading swedish works, but it works slowly, so I’m only two-thirds through it, but those two thirds are safe to... »

Ólafur Guðsteinn Kristjánsson writes an article about Nýhil in the german magazine Norrøna – Zeitschrift für Kultur, Geschicte und Politik der nordischen länder, called Rebellion gegen den Kanon auf Island – a fragment posted below: “Angesichts einer gemeinsamen Charakteristik der Arbeiten Nýhils muss zu den Gedichtbänden bemerkt werden, dass sie in Wirklichkeit keine solchen... »

(The following text is an extended version of a previous text of the same name. It is to be noted that although it starts more or less the same, some changes have been made to that part, and the whole thing is nearly 3 times longer then the original). The myth about the Icelandic... »

(The following text, as well as the text following the following text, was written for a seminar in Biskops Arnö about alternative publishing and literary innovation. They were both (mostly) written to be read aloud – I only read the first one, which I wrote when displeased with the second one, and I kept... »

The myth about the Icelandic language among the population – the myth that is propogated in the school system, from kindergarteners to doctorates – is that in some ways it is a purer language than that spoken by our brethren in Scandinavia, which at best is considered to be some sort of pidgin Icelandic,... »

It may be a little late in the game – but I will post this letter here, that I sent to various places some two weeks ago, anyway: DEAREST POETS. I am working on a book of poetry translations into Icelandic to be published by Leevi Lehto in Finland in the fall. Most of... »

Well yes. A literary blog! In english as a second language – barbaric and cruel. I’m not sure my english is bad enough to be interesting – my swedish certainly is, and blogging in finnish would be a wondrous feat. Matkaautoesta. Höpöhöpissa. I just came back from Sweden – spent the weekend at a... »