A boo on fascism
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 readings in 6 days. While no recordings were made in Iceland, J.P. Sipila recorded my reading in Turku, at their Poetry Week, which can be found here, along with older performances. Sound poems from the CD can be heard in the sidebar of my homepage: www.norddahl.org. Visuals, movable poems, concrete, whateveryouwannacallit can be seen in the concrete section of my page (including Arnold Schwarzenegger’s performance of ‘Iceland Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes’).
Ú á fasismann can be bought here on a 25% discount, at just under 8 Euros or about 10 dollars (at the current exhange rate (as it is calculated in foreign banks – the whole currency thing is being weird these days) – which is changing all the time now).
As some of you may know, Iceland is going through something which might be described as a national bankruptcy these days – the government has sought out IMF support, and all in all the situation is rather revolutionary. There is something about it on my blog, but you could also check out Surviving Iceland, for info. My first response to the crisis was Kreppusonnettan (IMF! IMF! OMG! OMG!), which can be heard read in Turku, but also in this poetry-cartoon-video I made.
I very rarely get any comments on my work in english, but this week Robert J. Baumann had some interesting things to say about my ‘I am a Letterhead’ on the Bathtub Collective blog. I’d like to use this opportunity to remind people of the poetry section of the english half of my homepage, where you can find translations of my poetry into English, French, German, Finnish, Swedish and Spanish. Click here for suchthings.