Overview
Arngunnur Árnadóttir, Ský til að gleyma (Partus, 2018). 56-page paperback.
Cover design
Ský til að gleyma (‘Clouds to forget’) is a collection of poems by the celebrated young Icelandic poet, novelist and musician Arngunnur Árnadóttir. The poems are short, stark, and enigmatic. The cover’s urban collage evokes the metropolitan landscape of the poems, while the suggestion of an aerial view is a nod towards the clouds mentioned in the title. The combination of slab serif and handwritten script adds to the collaged feel, as does the barcode (which overlaps the spine) and the rubber-stamped effect for the publisher's logo.
