Overview
Fríða Ísberg, Slitförin (Partus, 2017). 64-page paperback.
Cover design
Slitförin is the debut collection of Icelandic poet Fríða Ísberg. The cover contrasts the fluid, organic form of the human body with heavy, chiselled letterforms. Once interwoven, these two elements compliment each other and embody a tension within the poems, which wrestle with the competing interests of family and self, of responsibility and desire. The cover was selected as the best of 2017 by the Icelandic national newspaper.
