Archive for December, 2008

Riddari niðurrifsins is a found and performed poem. The original is an article in Fréttablaðið by Ragnar Halldórsson, consultant, where he scolds author Hallgrímur Helgason for being to hard on the government in his own articles, after the Icelandic economic crisis started, autumn 2008. I feel I should mention, that while I find Reductio... »

C-H-R-I-S-T (or X) M-A-S-(S) or Jól, yule. »

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Dear friends! A little over a month ago my sixth poetry book, Ú á fasismann, was published with Mál og menning in Iceland. It’s a collection of 20 two-frame visual poems (20X20 cm or about 8X8 inches), and 20 sound poems on CD. I just returned to Helsinki from Iceland where I did 10... »

I’ve spent almost a week in Iceland now – in Reykjavík only, having not had time to go up north – and will return to Finland tomorrow morning. The first thing that happened when I landed was that a group of people invaded the Central Bank, demanding that one of the three directors of... »

The poet Robert J. Baumann has some interesting takes on my poem “I am a Letterhead” on the Bathtub Collective blog. He finds it curiously reminiscent of an action film. That is a thought that pleases me. Click here. »

Iceland’s independence hero, Jón Sigurðsson, performs the Crisis Sonnet, by Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl – written in response to the IMF coming to Iceland. IMF and OMG and LOL should be recognizable to english speakers. The FME is the Icelandic Financial surveillance authorities, and FIT is what you pay as a fine for using your... »