Poetics Anonymous
I became a poet for more or less the same reason everybody else did: I’m lazy and I wanted to sleep late. That was the job description. You get to sleep late, drink late and most people won’t ever find out you’re stupid because what you do is beyond comprehension anyway – your roots... »
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 importance of destroying a language (of one’s own) – full version
(The following text is an extended version of a previous text written as a mini-lecture for the seminar Alternativ publicering/litterær innovation in Biskops Arnö, Sweden, 10.-13. may, 2007 – but never read, since I was displeased with it, and decided these ideas needed much more than the 15 minutes given in Sweden. Instead I... »
Badtaste4Ever
Besides performing at the Flarf 08 Festival next week, I will be at the Iceland on the Edge or Badtaste4Ever festival in Brussels on Wednesday the 30th of april, along with Ingibjörg Magnadóttir, Ásdís Sif, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Helgi Þórsson, Sigtryggur Sigmarsson (the last two are renowned noise-artists Stillupsteypa), DJ Magic, Sjón, Kristín... »
The importance of destroying a language (of own’s one) TAKE TWO
(The following text is an extended version of a previous text of the same name. It is to be noted that although it starts more or less the same, some changes have been made to that part, and the whole thing is nearly 3 times longer then the original). The myth about the Icelandic... »