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Blert, insomnia and Ida on Litlive
Not being able to fall asleep, I thought I’d jot a few words down. First of all, some time ago I came into possession of a book called Blert by canadian poet Jordan Scott. Probably through Angela Rawlings, Derek Beaulieu or Christian Bök - I’m not sure anymore, they’ve all gotten me books. Whoever it... »
Interview on Icelandic Poetry
Recently one Robin Vaughan-Williams contacted me with a few questions for an article he’s writing for a british poetry magazine. The answers I gave are here below - this is very much thinking aloud, as you’d answer in a spoken-word interview (although conducted through email), and I’ve not cleaned it much up at all.... »
The 4th International
4th international Nýhil Poetry Festival was a hootenanny with Ida Börjel, Ann Cotten, Sureyya Evren, Hanno Millesi and Nina Sös Vinther - as well as 12 Icelandic superpoets. My reading went more or less as planned - but immediately afterwards I got crazy-flu and’ve been caughing houses and midgets since saturday. You can witness... »
Ida Börjel - Konsumentköplagen
Ida Börjel reads from Konsumentköplagen (Consumer Law) in Swedish, with Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir reading my Icelandic translation. »
You are a pipe
I One’s understanding of one’s own language is limited, one’s understanding of other languages is even more limited, and a perfect transferal of a text from one language to another is impossible simply because the languages are two different ones. “Boat” is not the same as “bátur,” which is not the same as “Boot” or... »
READINGS COMING UP
Lichtungen
Graz, Austria - 30.11.2009
Icelandic
- Gæska: Fjallræða um samtímannGæska hefur sérstöðu. Í stað hefðbundinna sögupersóna og aristótelísks söguaga er hér sjónarspil hins flaumósa ímyndunarafls, eins og það birtist í meðförum afar spræks söguhöfundar, sem ryðst hér að miðju frásagnarinnar og gengur þar í fóstbræðralag við félagslega vitund sem heldur á lofti öflugri gagnrýni á Í […]
Swedish
- Barndomstolen - Ulf Karl Olov NilssonKritikerns egosentriska prolog eller Barndomstolen II: The Return of Barndomstolen Älskade Litlive-läsare, Det här är min andra kopia av Ulf Karl Olov Nilssons (UKONs) tionde diktsamling, Barndomstolen. Den är lika mycket värd som den första. Första kopian fick jag i födelsedagspresent från min fru. Jag blev jätteglad! Jag läste högt från den […]