Pallsetti yrkjarin: Yrkingasavnið Eru koparrør í himmiríki eftir Katrina Ottarsdóttur sum dømi um nýggjan yrkjaraleiklut

The collection of poetry “Eru koparrør í himmiríki” by Katrin Óttarsdóttir, published in 2012, challenges the methods usually adopted by literary scholars as the publication in itself turned out to be a literary and artistic event. The article discusses how new media has helped create new roles for authors and poets and new possibilities for them to influence the way readers read and understand their works. In particular, the publication of “Eru koparrør í himmiríki” is used to demonstrate how a poet can make use of semiotic systems in a mediated context as part of an aesthetic strategy. Key concepts and terms are “semionautical”, “performative biografism” and “biographical irreversibility” coined by respectively Nicolas Bourriaud and Jon Helt Haarder.