"Songs and Texts" is what Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson calls the poems in the subtitle of his first poetry collection, for which he was awarded the prestigious Tómas Guðmundsson Poetry Prize in his native Iceland. This immediately removes any heaviness often associated with poetry. In fact, his journey through space and time, through the past and future, through physics, philosophy, and black magic, carries a refreshing lightness that does not disguise the truly existential questions posed by the author himself: What is true? What is false? How do we assure our identity in a world where nothing is certain, nothing stable, but everything is in constant motion?.