“A privilege to wake / into the East morning cold / fill the lungs with the stench of Nesjavellir / see the mountain‘s blue edge cut / the pink sky / and think: Again / the day is given unto you.”
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Fréttir
Friday 31. Jan 2020
Writers of children's fiction from other UNESCO Cities of Literature are invited to apply for a month long residency in Reykjavík in October 2020. Application deadline is March 1st 2020.
Fréttir
Sunday 29. Dec 2019
The new year will be celebrated with poetry readings in Gröndal's House from dawn to dusk on January 1st 2020.
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Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir
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