Blandarabrandarar, Vilnius, Scream, Ginsberg, Visuals and new publisher

Posted by admin on June 11th, 2008 filed in News

Headline news is that the electric book Brandarablandarar is slowly and surely being published online. The book is a cooperation between me and Jón Örn Loðmfjörð, digital poet. Four poems have been posted, and several more are on the way (this is all reprogramming of my 2005 book, Blandarabrandarar. More information (in Icelandic) with the poems here.

I am on my way to Lithuania to participate in an event called Nordic Summer, and this year the theme is ‘The writer and rebellion’. The festival takes place in Vilnius, June 12-15.

In July I head for the Scream Literary Festival in Toronto, Canada. There I will participate in the rejuvenated reading series ‘Lexiconjury’, reading with Alixandra Bamford and Natalie Zina Walschots, and an unanounced cooperateur. More information on Scream can be found on their homepage.

Lastly, I’ve joined the publishing company Mál og menning (the biggest in Iceland). They will publish my forthcoming book of visual poems in the fall, and my translations of selected poems by Allen Ginsberg.