Archive for April, 2009

As per request of Christian Bök. »

Yesterday I gave a speech at an Iceland conference in Helsinki. Amongst other speakers were Friðrik Andersen, bank manager at the Nordic Investment Bank, and Pekka Mäkinen, regional director for Icelandair in Finland. I gave the speech in swedish, but for easier writing I composed it in english and then translated it. The text... »

Poetry Video shown at a festival in Akureyri last friday. It’s in Icelandic, but there are visuals you might enjoy anyway. The title translates as “Fist or senseless words”. »

They tell me that Iceland, and in particular Reykjavík, is too small an environment to foster a critical arts debate, since the feeling of being able to speak freely is a luxury given only through a certain remove, a certain distance which is not to be found in the Icelandic arts world (and moving... »

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... »