Author: - The Reykjavik Grapevine

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I recently saw a Norwegian sketch on Youtube about the invention of the book. A medieval man has just gotten…

I’ll Have What He’s Having

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Are you tired of writing your own damn poems? Does it feel like you’d rather plunge through the fiery gates…

Poetics anonymous

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I became a poet for more or less the same reason everybody else did: I’m lazy and I wanted to…

Award This!

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A few years ago the Icelandic poetry world was rocked by a tectonic scandal that nobody noticed for weeks (and…

To The Death!

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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

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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

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When modernism in poetry shocked its way through Europe in the beginning of the last century, people’s main concern was…

Icelandic Art Makes Me Feel Nothing at All

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They tell me that Iceland, and in particular Reykjavík, is too small an environment to foster a critical arts debate,…

God Makes Poets Go Bonkers

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Not much is known about 17th century poet Þorbjörn Þórðarsson or his life, even his identity and name are up…