Hallgrímur has published a new collection of poetry illustrated by himself. The book is titled “Drungabrim í dauðum sjó”, roughly translated as “Ghostly Surf in a Sea of Calm”. It is a compilation of his poetry written in the 21st century, poems done in the classical meters of the great Icelandic tradition, with the age old phenomenon of alliteration, that stems from the Viking age, as well as the more recent addition of rhyme. Hallgrímur has long been one of the very few torchbearers of the Icelandic tradition of poetry, and started his career as a young man by publishing poems in the style of and inspired by the national bard, Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845). Here, the older poet writes sonnets and love poems, and about his personal ups and downs, as well as social satires and long ballads, plus biting political poems on Putin and Gaza. Many of those verses had appeared in journals and magazines, on Facebook and Instagram, or were performed on TV. Hallgrímur the artist then illustrates some of them.