Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Fyrilestur um Tórodd Poulsen



Sambært heimasíðuni hjá Fróðskaparsetrinum hevur Turið Sigurðardóttir verið í Íslandi, har hon hevur hildið áhugverdan fyrilestur um Tórodd Poulsen: "Á ráðstevnuni “Art in Translation”, sum Háskóli Íslands og Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur skipaðu fyri 24.-27. mai, talaði Turið Sigurðardóttir um yrkingar eftir Tórodd Poulsen undir yvirskriftini: "When the paint brush finally puts me down" - The visuality of Tóroddur Poulsen´s poetry". Fyrilesturin er sostatt á enskum og byrjar soleiðis: Turið Sigurðardóttir:
“When the paint brush finally puts me down” – The visuality of
Tóroddur Poulsen’s poetry
Tóroddur Poulsen has ever since he published his first book of poetry in 1984, had a special attitude towards words and language. He focuses on the various dimensions of the words: Their sound, the flavour and connotations, that each word carries along from various contexts and from the neighbourhood of other words; to a growing degree, he has also worked on the visual side of the words: their concrete existence on a page as written or printed letters...." Lesið restina av fyrilestrinum her: http://setur.fo/tidindi/fyrilestur-um-torodd-poulsen-vid-haskola-islands/