Höpöhöpö Böks
January 15, 2009 in News, The New Illiterati
Höpöhöpö Böks premiered on the Icelandic State TV, January 14th, 2009. Click below for original text with a literal translation. More works in this vein can be found here. Tweet
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Two books, two readings & a CD
November 11, 2008 in News, The New Illiterati
Two books out, very recently. First: Ú á fasismann – og fleiri ljóð, 20 visual poems and 20 sound poems (book + CD) out from Mál & menning. Then Maíkonungurinn, Allen Ginsberg selected and translated into Icelandic, also published by Mál & menning. They’re out in Iceland, and as I [...]
The 4th International
August 28, 2008 in News
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 [...]
Lexiconjury Scream
July 10, 2008 in News, The New Illiterati
Lexiconjury reading was amazing – got to read with the legendary Paul Dutton, was called back for an encore, as well as being put on the spot the day after. Click here to see videos. Still in Toronto – tonight: apropriation with Kenny G. All sorts of craziness on the [...]
The Scream
July 7, 2008 in News, The New Illiterati
TRAILER In a world without poetry, a reading series is found. History considered it dead, and who would argue with history? And yet here, a sonic power, where past and future collide, is unleashed. It’s a doorway to another dimension, a dimension called Lexiconjury! Kennedy and rawlings, lexiconjurors bent on [...]
Blandarabrandarar, Vilnius, Scream, Ginsberg, Visuals and new publisher
June 11, 2008 in News
Headline news is that the electric book Brandarablandarar is slowly and surely being published online. The book is a cooperation between me and Jón Örn Loðmfjörð, digital poet. Four poems have been posted, and several more are on the way (this is all reprogramming of my 2005 book, Blandarabrandarar. More [...]
Brandarablandarar I-III
May 27, 2008 in News
Check out the new digital version of Blandarabrandarar, Brandarablandarar here, an electronic free-book by me and Jón Örn Loðmfjörð. The poems that have been posted so far are Naglasúpa, Besta orðið mitt and Kardinálinn var svo áhugasamur um Norrænar bókmenntir. More poems coming soon!!! Tweet
New videos and updates
May 8, 2008 in News
I’ve updated the visual section of this site, with new videos from New York and Brussels, as well as making changes to the concrete section – mostly navigational, but also added a few pieces. You can see the visual section here – readings here, and concrete here. Next on the [...]
Icelandic translation prize
April 23, 2008 in News
I just got the Icelandic translation prize for Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn. Incidentally, I’m in Brooklyn for the first time, going to participate in the Flarf festival this weekend, all around the Bowery. My mother went and picked up the prize on my behalf at Gljúfrasteinn, the former house of [...]
Badtaste4Ever
April 20, 2008 in News
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), [...]