Each Word Is an Event (2008)

Each Word Is an Event is the title of the latest collection of poems to come from national poet Thorsteinn fra Hamri and is the eighteenth collection to be published. Thorsteinn is a tireless, eloquent and poignant thinker, the poet who gives a voice to nature and history, the country and the life of its society. He writes poetry that strikes people in the heart, at times cruel and provocative, at others bitter-sweet and tender.

Each Word Is An Event is a book that carries the echoes of history and the past, but also, at the same time, resonances of the contemporary world in which there is a burning need for this craft, pure poetry, to be savoured and cherished.