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Roskilde festival
Dear friends. Tomorrow morning I fly to Roskilde festival to perform at ‘Ordets Område’ – the literature part of this famous rock festival. I’ll be performing as a part of a team on friday at 16.30 – playing around with the analogue text remixer RE ACT OR – and on thursday (my 32nd birthday!)... »
Poland and 3:AM
All is mostly work these days. That is to say, work that pays money. Which means less time for worthless occupations secretly intended to destroy capitalism (through the dickish laziness of poetry). Tomorrow I go to Warzaw, Poland, to meet with Political Critique, along with my comrades in Nýhil. We shall perform there wednesday... »
Eitur fyrir byrjendur in German!
My second novel, Eitur fyrir byrjendur (Poison for beginners), will be published in Germany next year by Kozempel & Timm publishing . The book was originally published by Nýhil in 2006, but Iceland’s biggest publisher, Mál & menning, bought the rights earlier this year. The book was very well received by critics in Iceland... »
Verbal Pupils
Next saturday I will perform at the poetry Festival Verbale Pupiller in Aarhus, Denmark. It’s an international festival and amongst the guests this year are Cia Rinne, Charles Bernstein, Tua Forsström, Anne Cotten, Annelie Axen, Johan Jönson, Morten Søndergaard and Jan Erik Vold – and many others. It’s also a book fair for small... »
Scream Readings
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Last monday night (July 13) I performed with Paul Dutton at the Scream Literary Festival Mainstage outside in the warm but comfortable summer evening (the days here are not as comfortable). Paul and I were doing an expanded repeat of last years performance and I for one thoroughly enjoyed it despite... »
High Park Screaming
I will perform with Paul Dutton at the coming Scream Literary Festival, for the second year in a row. The festival takes place in Toronto, Canada, from July 2-13 – and I will read on the last day, mainstage: Scream in High Park. Expected turnout is 750-1.000 people (!!!) Amongst other people performing (the... »
New News (stuff, essays)
First: Mind the Sound, writings about the 17th century Icelandic nonsense/sound-poet Æri-Tobbi and my own work from his writing. Published in aslongasittakes and (in finnish translation) in Nuori Voima magazine. Second: Hay-grinder of the greenpeace-kitten earth-channels of the desert-asphalt sugar-free beach-found transparent salt-Coke – a column about ‘kenning’ metaphors in skaldic poetry. Published in... »
Stanza literature-bar in Malmö
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... »
Malmö, Tallinn, Helsinki, Akureyri etc.
This coming thursday I will be reading in Malmö, Sweden, along with finn-swedish poet Cia Rinne and the nestor of swedish concrete poetry, Bengt Emil Johnson, as well as the poetrygroup 3 Advokater. Malmö Litteraturbar Stanza – Inkonst.com 26.03.2009 – at 8 pm In spirit and likeness I will be in Akureyri, Iceland, on... »
Stanza: Me, Bengt Emil Johnson, Cia Rinne and 3 Advokater
. Reading in Malmö on the 26th of March along with Cia Rinne, Bengt Emil Johnson and 3 Advokater (including Pär Thorn). The reading is held at Inkonst, Bergsgatan 29, Malmö and is a part of the Stanza reading series, it starts at 20.00 (eight in the evening) and the entrance fee is 40... »