Höpöhöpö Böks

In the summer of 2005 Christian Bök, the author of univocal lipogram Eunoia, was a guest at the Nýhil international poetry festival in Iceland, an event I organized. After some drinks one evening I leant over and said I thought it was really strange that he’d skipped his own Ö (incidentally CB was born “Christian Book” - but found the cross to heavy to bear, and changed his name) - and as the drinking got heavier my bravado grew, and eventually I promised that I would produce an Ö chapter for him. Eventually I did in Icelandic, did a rough translation, and they were printed together in a chapbook by Derek Beaulieu’s No Press for Christians 40th birthday.

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Riddari niðurrifsins

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 economic crisis started. The title of the article was “An answer to the knight of destruction” - from which the poem’s title comes: “The Knight of Destruction” (Riddari niðurrifsins).

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THE CRISIS SONNET

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Jón Sigurðsson, the independence hero of Iceland, performs the Crisis Sonnet, wearing a pink gown like his statue in Reykjavík did during a demonstration in late november (he was dressed up by the feminist movement).
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Iceland Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes

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Iceland Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes was written for the first issue of Tíu þúsund tregawatta. The reading comes from the CD with Ú á fasismann. Click here to see.

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Hemd stafakarlanna

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Hemd stafakarlanna was done for the series Publishing the unpublishable, on UbuWeb, curated by Kenneth Goldsmith. The poem is 250CM X 250CM. Click on the poem to see it full sized.

Here you can see the other poems in the series.

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Föður vorra

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Three Pater Nosters.

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Kennara með köldu blóði

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Kennara með köldu blóði - a movie-poem, done in Flash.

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Diskó

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Diskó was written for a blog in late 2007.
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Untitled visual poem

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Untitled visual poem from Þjónn, það er Fönix í öskubakkanum mínum. Click on the poem and see it move!

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Sakkarínarbakkar

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Sakkarínarbakkar from Þjónn, það er Fönix í öskubakkanum mínum. Click on the poem.

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J-I-H-A-D

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J-I-H-A-D is from Þjónn, það er Fönix í öskubakkanum mínum. Click on the poem.