It Wad ferpatst, it Wad ferpatst
(30-01) Hjoed, de lêste tongersdei fan jannewaris, set de poëzywike útein. It gedicht ‘It skip lei droech’ is skreaun nei oanlieding fan …
Frankfurter Buchmesse – Books from Friesland 2019 – Eeltsje Hettinga
Eeltsje Hettinga (1955) was the Poet of Fryslân for 2018 and 2019. He has published six collections of poetry. His debut Akten …
PEN International – A Poetry Memorial for Daphne Caruana Galizia
(16-10) Poems written to honour the legacy of Daphne Caruana Galizia – ‘It has been two years since Daphne Caruana Galizia was …
Mortlake – A bottle of water. A chunk of bread. Enough
(20-08) MORTLAKE (1) * A bottle of water. A chunk of bread. Enough for a trip that only lasts a day shift …
The clatter of the dyke – It klappen fan ‘e dyk
THE CLATTER OF THE DYKE She hears the clatter of the dyke, sea-bound horse’s small blue eye, trotting on the brick road, …
Pont Mirabeau –
PONT MIRABEAU Ein Nichts waren wir, sind wir, werden wir bleiben, blühend: die Nichts-, die Niemandsrose. From: ‘Psalm’ Paul Celan (Nov. 23th, …
‘Pont Mirabeau’ – Elke brêge in ferlitten – Every bridge a leaving
(04-05) David Colmer maakte voor de Engels-Friese bloemlezing ‘Swallow and Floating Horses’ de Engelse vertaling van ‘Pont Mirabeau,’ met een aantal regels …
Fury – Woede
FURY * How someone with a charge of hate in his heart, fuse burning, steps into a train, a tram or shop, …
Winter – Landscape with bird-trap
(01-02) Winter Under the wolf moon of a single night the canal shows barely a skin of ice, but still the boasting, …
Ship bird land – Skip, fûgel, lân – [MSC Zoe – De ramp op het Wad]
Ship bird land ‘Substitute’, The Who Sliced open, my body lay on the coast below the foaming, scud-spitting horizon. I was a …