BÓK – with Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger

Where: Skálin
Duration: 45 min.

Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger’s new poetry collection, BÓK, contains 54 poems. Here we encounter a they who attempts to describe an entire world of experience – body, navel, thighs, lips, nails, jaw, smile, nature, apus flower, stream, doubt, forgiveness, psyche, sex, and relationships.

The poems are intimate reflections and lived recognitions, written as if emerging from a collective memory of something that has already happened – as if the world no longer existed. Or as if it were coming into being for the very first time.

Lív talks with Anna Fohlin Mattsson about BÒK. Anna has previously written the following about the poetry collection:

Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger
Lív has released the poetry album Mítt navn við hondskrift (2014, with Lasse Jæger and Steinprent Tórshavn), the poetry collections Hvít sól (2015, Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins) and Eg skrivi á vátt pappír (2020, Forlagið Eksil), and has, in collaboration with SUPERVISJÓN, written lyrics and performed vocals for the album FAST TRAKK (2023).

She has also published the experimental booklets WICKED FYSIKK (2023, Bandcamp), DE ANIMA, BITCH, hennara undirgangur er undirgangur okkara alra – ein sálarmessa fyri Britney (2023, Bandcamp), and EIN KRÍGSPOLITIKK VERÐUR FRIÐARPOETIKK – Tað, sum hendir í Gaza, rúmast ikki í short-form content á sosialum miðlum (2025), in collaboration with Amnesty International Føroyar.

For her poetry collection Eg skrivi á vátt pappír, Lív received the M.A. Jacobsen Literary Award and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2021.

Forlagið Eksil is a Faroese publishing house that publishes new voices and experimental literature in Faroese.
The press has released works by several of the most distinctive authors in the Faroe Islands today, including Vónbjørt Vang, Beinir Bergsson, Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger, Guðrið Poulsen, Anna Malan Jógvansdóttir, and Sissal Kampmann.
Eksil works across art forms and has created events that merge literature and visual art – including collaborations at the G! Festival and in international contexts.

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