Friday 12 June 2009

Anne Frank in Iceland

A poetry reading with a difference - Gerður Kristný presents one of her poems in an unusual time/space continuum. Click the arrow to watch.

4 comments:

Eric Dickens said...

I don't know whether it's just me, but I only got the introduction and the Icelandic. There was, presumably, an English translation, but the last minute of this recording was blank.

Nevertheless, Kristný has a clear voice, which is good for a poet. Her train of thought from an annoying junkie neighbour to an 80-year-old Anne Frank is an intriguing one. There was a mock-up picture in one of the dailies recently of what she would have looked like, had she survived till today.

David McDuff said...

I thought the blank conclusion of the recording was deliberate, but I may be wrong.

Eric Dickens said...

It may be a copyright matter. I cannot imagine that one whole minute of silence would have been invented by anyone but John Cage.

David McDuff said...

Maybe, though with the younger generation these days all things are possible. :-)