Call for submissives

The Dictators & other sound poems

For three euros you can be the proud owner of 30 sound poems (which comes to a whooping ten cents a piece), written, composed and performed by me, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl. For four euros more you can get a physical CD (home-burned with a nice cover) – including delivery costs. The CD features a series [...]

Booby, Be Quiet!

Booby, Be Quiet! is a collection of essays and columns about poetry, literature and literary politics(the title is a very learnéd reference to Auden’s translation of the Eddas). The essays and columns have been published in various places in the last five years – around half of the book consists of material written for The [...]

Newsletter: IWF! OMG! and Boobies!

Dear friends. Next saturday I will be participating in the Zebra Poetry Film Festival schedule at the Gothenburg book fair. The Zebra crew will play some of last year’s films, including my Höpöhöpö Böks, and me and Maria Silkeberg (who also has a film in the program) will be reading some poems. But the Gothenburg [...]

Sharon Mesmer gives me a proper talking-to

With the hostile takeover of triviality in popular media and popular art, perhaps poets have forgotten about fun, about charm, about joy, about attitude, about intensity, about popular iconoclasm, about naughty words, about the beautiful horniness — and driven anything that might attract an audience looking for something other than (supposed) supreme intelligence out of [...]

May 16, 2007 in The New Illiterati

It may be a little late in the game – but I will post this letter here, that I sent to various places some two weeks ago, anyway:

DEAREST POETS.

I am working on a book of poetry translations into Icelandic to be published by Leevi Lehto in Finland in the fall. Most of the poems in it have already been translated, but I will be adding to the book until the middle of June. For this reason I am searching out poems and poetry books in english or one of the nordic languages (swedish, norwegian, danish or faroese), and it is therefore I write to you. Some poems might even be translated from finnish, french or german. Poets wanting a translation can either send me poetry by email (kolbrunarskald@hotmail.com) – or books in the mail:

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
Fleminginkatu 9A 10
00530 Helsinki
Finland

Tags: Finland, Helsinki, Iceland, Leevi Lehto, Poetry, Translation

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Malte P says:

May 16, 2007 at 9:22 am

I can ask my publisher to send you my latest book of poems, if you want it. In fact, I can do it even if you don’t want it. Or, I could e-mail you my half-barbaric English translations of my lovely Swedish poems, which you could then perhaps translate into an insular dwarfish language of your choice.

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl says:

May 16, 2007 at 9:28 am

Please do! Both! It would please me to no end!

Martin Johs. Møller says:

May 16, 2007 at 10:42 am

Is there a deadline?

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl says:

May 16, 2007 at 11:29 am

I promised Leevi that I’d have the m/s on his lapdesk by june 15th. So… uh… june 5th would be the last date I could see something new and add to the book…

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