Fredrik Hertzberg: Gunnar Bj��rling

This is Fredrik Hertzberg's introduction to his translation of Gunnar Björling: You go the words (Action Books, 2007). Björling in English. Björling in Finland-Swedish.


Fredrik Hertzberg is a literary sch...
18.01.08

derek beaulieu: Putting the screws to poetry: Natalie Zina Walschot?s Thumbscrews.
Putting the screws to poetry:
Natalie Zina Walschot’s Thumbscrews.

Natalie Zina Walschot’s Thumbscrews is a ‘dirty-minded, sticky-fingered book’ which reveals language’s kinks and hang-ups, reveling i...
11.01.08

Aleksandr Skidan: Poetry in the Age of Total Communication
This text was published, translated into Norwegian by Susanne Hege Bergan, in Audiatur - Katalog for ny poesi 2007 and in Vagant 2/07.This version in English is translated from the Russian by Thomas H. Campbell.
 
Poetry in the Age o...
30.11.07

Eir��kur ��rn Nor��dahl: You are a pipe
This text is an english translation of the prologue to Eiríkur Örn Norðdahls Icelandic poetry translation anthology, 131.839 slög með bilum.
 
You are a pipe 
 
I
One’s und...
30.10.07

Leevi Lehto: Nothing That Is Initially Interesting To More Than Seven People Can Ever Change The Counciousness Of the Masses
Based on presentations given, during Spring 2007, in Tallinn, Estonia, Jyväskylä, Finland, and on May 11, in the Seminar on Alternative Publishing in Biskops-Arnö, Sweden. To be published, in translation into Scandinavian by Susanne Ch...
30.10.07

Robert Fitterman: Identity Theft, A talk


I am interested in the inclusion of subjectivity and personal experience; I just prefer if it isn’t my own. Today I have access to an unlimited number of personal utterances and expressions from the gut, or the heart. Why listen...
29.10.07

Eir��kur ��rn Nor��dahl: The importance of destroying a language (of own's one) TAKE TWO
(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,...
23.05.07

Eir��kur ��rn Nor��dahl: N��hil and T��u ����sund tregaw��tt
The following text was written for a seminar in Biskops Arnö about alternative publishing and literary innovation, and was first published at English for the New Illiterati).
Mulling over what would be appropriate use of these given 15 min...
23.05.07

Leevi Lehto: On Writers? Copyrights
A "Writer's Comment" in the Literary Council of Finland's Seminar, Helsinki, October 30, 2006 I will present these comments as a writer whose relation to the copyrights (or «author's rights», as we say in Finnish) has become t...
04.12.06

Nico Bleutge: Auf der Glasfl��che. Vom poetischen Sehen
Im Korrespondentenbrief 9/2 schrieb Michael Braun: «Nico Bleutge realisiert wie kein anderer Autor seiner Generation das Abenteuer des Sehens’ in seinen Gedichten ». Siehe auch «Fünf Gedichte» von Nico Bleutge. Nico...
23.03.06

Nico Bleutge: P�� glassflaten. Om det poetiske blikket
I korrespondentbrevet 9/2 skrev Michael Braun om Nico Bleutge, «en forfatter som i tekstene sine realiserer 'blikkets eventyr' mer enn noen annen i sin generasjon.» Dette essayet og fem dikt av Bleutge er oversatt ti...
22.03.06

Paardekooper: Introduktion til Here comes your 19th Nervous Breakdown
Dan Turèll ville fylt 60 år i dag, søndag 19. mars. Nypoesi minnes ham ved å legge ut Here comes your 19th Nervous Breakdown fra 1973. Paardekooper introduserer:
Dan Turèll (19. marts 1946-15. oktober 1993) tilh...
19.03.06

Niels Frank: Muhammed og kunsten
Oven på flagafbrændinger og angreb på danske ambassader og religiøs opstandelse med mennesketab til følge kan det virke en smule smagløst – for ikke at sige skamløst – at betragte sagen fra en...
08.03.06

Pierre Alferi: �� n��rme seg prosaen
Pierre Alferi (f. 1963). Siste diktbok: La Voie des airs (P.O.L 2004). "Vers la prose" er oversatt fra fransk av Gunnar Berge.
Prosa er ikke en sjanger, og heller ikke det motsatte av poesi. Den er litteraturens nedre ideal, med andre...
11.02.06

Fredrik Hertzberg: Finlandsv��nska pionj��rer inom den visuella poesin
I ett föredrag som hölls vid Gunnar Björling-symposiet i Åbo 1992, uppmärksammade Sixten Ringbom de finlandssvenska modernisternas («quosegoisternas») intresse för «visuell perception» (121). S&a...
10.02.06

Anna Hallberg: H��r har man alltid med sig

Följande text är skriven som ett muntligt framförande till ett samtal om poesi och kritik under seminariet post-poesi på Biskops-Arnö 12-15 maj 2005.

Är här.
Tyngre i här.
L&a...
09.02.06

Johan J��nson: Poesi och politik
    Om man vet    vad man vill säga    då kan man säga det    då behöver man inte skriva    in bokstav   &nb...
08.02.06

Maria Engberg: Digital poesi
Under de senaste årtionden har medierna mångfaldigats i vårt samhälle genom spridningen av digital datorteknik i olika former. Persondatorer, mobiltelefoner, podcasting, Internet och www, listan kan göras lång. Denna...
08.02.06