I Write on Wet Paper

Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger

Summer 2025 | Francis Boutle Publishers | 250 pages (bilingual)
Translated from Faroese

Winner – 2020 Faroese Literature Prize

Nominee – 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize

I Write on Wet Paper is about writing to understand relationships and the relationship between your own thoughts and the thoughts of all the others, and about understanding yourself as a child, a young woman and a human being participating in the lives of others.

“Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger is very conscious with a deep knowledge of literature and reflections on existence and writing…, inviting us into the engine room to see some of what has shaped the consciousness behind the poems.” — Kinna Poulsen

“Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger writes like no one else in the Faroe Islands…Her way of writing formally innovative texts is philosophically essential and poetically sensual all at once.” — Silja Aldudóttir

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Selected poems appear in:

• Circumference

• Annulet Poetics Journal

• Best Literary Translations 2025