Author: Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
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I recently saw a Norwegian sketch on Youtube about the invention of the book. A medieval man has just gotten…
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I’ll Have What He’s Having
Are you tired of writing your own damn poems? Does it feel like you’d rather plunge through the fiery gates…
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Poetics anonymous
I became a poet for more or less the same reason everybody else did: I’m lazy and I wanted to…
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Award This!
A few years ago the Icelandic poetry world was rocked by a tectonic scandal that nobody noticed for weeks (and…
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To The Death!
As I may have mentioned before, poetry was (in Iceland) once considered a gift from God, the misuse of which…
Warning: You don´t need poetry
Anyone that gets a rudimentary education in the Western world, or at least in the places I know anything about,…
Hay-grinder of the greenpeace-kitten earth-channels of the desert-asphalt sugar-free beach-found transparent salt-Coke
When modernism in poetry shocked its way through Europe in the beginning of the last century, people’s main concern was…
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Icelandic Art Makes Me Feel Nothing at All
They tell me that Iceland, and in particular Reykjavík, is too small an environment to foster a critical arts debate,…
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God Makes Poets Go Bonkers
Not much is known about 17th century poet Þorbjörn Þórðarsson or his life, even his identity and name are up…