Read an interview with Erkka and I about the translation that started this collaboration, and what I hope will be a long term co-project with Finnish and international avant garde theorists and poets, at @lonningspils.bsky.social: lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...

some albums that i listened to this week

Headed to CBC this fall. :) www.newswire.ca/news-release...

My book Myth of the Garbage Patch is out now on Thousands Press! I’m grateful to Sally Boyd for publishing this accumulation archive. 🌊 thousandspress.com/shop/p/myth-...

New on Substack, some poetry for a season of doubt and Ostrogoths: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

late night åsmund sveen

up late looking at jessie oonark's work

Happy Earth Day; here's a new film my friend Zoe Rosenblum and her co-director Matthew Busch made about protections for whales in the face of climate change! 🐳 @latimes.com www.latimes.com/0000019d-b1f...

it appears that the peak era for poetry in the entire world was winnipeg in the 1980s. i wouldn't have guessed that myself, but all i can do is share my findings.

music that i listened to this week

london, ontario review of books

Great piece by Jenna Grace Sciuto in Elsewhere Journal. www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

what i listened to over the past week

Olga Ravn reading from The Wax Child

The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison has been selected for The Booksellers’ List Spring 2026! ‘An existential romp and a heartfelt cry for an international humanitarian awakening.’ – Basil Sylvester, Flying Books Out May 12: chbooks.com/Books/T/The-...

music that i listened to this week 🌌

A stack of every book that I finished in March.

New on Lønningspils. I interviewed Geoffrey D. Morrison about learning Norwegian, UFOs, long sentences, opening a branch of the Vancouver Public Library in Ontario, humour in Pynchon & Bolaño, Dag Solstad & his forthcoming novel "The Coffin Of Honey". lonningspils.ca/2026/03/29/i...

She’s as cute as Nokia 3310.

new books :)

new project

another weekly five by five

a stack of the books i finished in february

New Article: Exploring Icelandic & US Southern Lit. Our former podcast guest Jenna Grace Sciuto discusses her book "Intersecting Worlds" lonningspils.ca/2026/02/15/i...

can't wait for this, "the details" by ia genberg is one of the best pieces of translated lit coming out of the nordics in recent years (high praise!)

A fun one from Olav H. Hauge i think about a lot: BERTOLT BRECHT A versatile fellow: playwright, actor, poet His verse was handy to step into, it stood on the door-step like a pair of wooden clogs.

I love the last three lines of the poem Everyday from 1966's Drops in the East Wind (trans. Robin Fulton)

five by five

I interviewed Jenna Grace Sciuto about her book "Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures" We touch on Faulkner, Laxness, Svava Jakobsdóttir, Skriðuklaustur, McCullers & much more. lonningspils.ca/2026/02/15/i...

great write up from the best site. i'm still grappling with where it stands in his oeuvre... outside of his Big 3 great works, this may be my favourite so far.

New on the website. Noah Vølund Fechter reviews "they" by Helle Helle (trans. Martin Aitken). @ndbooks.bsky.social lonningspils.ca/2026/02/10/t...

Forthcoming from New Directions in October: my translation of LONDON by Louis-Ferdinand Céline! Probably the most difficult book of all the 50+ books I've translated, for many reasons...

french lit pickups from a used bookstore visit

Poesia forever. 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

finally making a dent in the new tove ditlevsen

Auden... in Iceland?

this piece by anne meredith barry feels exactly halfway between nikolai astrup & tove jansson, so ya i do love it so so much

I love reading Tomas Tranströmer poems.

I wrote about one of the best novels I encoutered last year. One Thousand & One by Kari Hukkila. (Trans. David Hackston). An essayistic novel with truly unique form. It is part wittgenstein biography, part history of natural disasters & part tempestuous love story. lonningspils.ca/2026/01/03/o...

In a big step for the website, we sent Penelope Dieppa to the New York launch of The School Of Night, where Karl Ove Knausgaard was in conversation with Patricia Lockwood. An insightful #KnausgaardUpdate. lonningspils.ca/2026/01/15/o...

New on Lønningspils today. I interviewed @mayaweeks.bsky.social about translating the author's note for Tove Jansson's "Sun City", studying plastic pollution in Sweden from a feminist environmental justice perspective, making ambient records & so much more. lonningspils.ca/2026/01/09/i...

fish by nevan hinks

I just finished Solvej Balle's 1993 book "Ifølge loven // According To The Law", truly blown away. It really mogs OTCOF and hope to see more of their work in translation in the near future.

three paintings by mamma andersson