Filip Rogiers: On the Fundamentalism of Every Revelation
This week's Friday Verses are written by Filip Rogiers. We translated his poem ‘On the Fundamentalism of Every Revelation’.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
This week's Friday Verses are written by Filip Rogiers. We translated his poem ‘On the Fundamentalism of Every Revelation’.
Ever since Belgium came into existence its end has regularly been predicted, mostly by foreign observers. On June 13 1999, after the elections, with the fragmentation of the political landscape and the continuing success of the far right, d...
The political and social upheavals in Belgium during the late 1990s have not left Flemish literature untouched. There was a brief but vigorous debate about politics and literature in the literary world, but the creative fall-out of all this...
As Poet Laureate of Belgium, Kör wants everyone to feel the power of poetry, especially those who don't naturally come into contact with it.
Every other Friday we treat you to beautiful verses by a poet from Flanders or the Netherlands. Sometimes an old forgotten poem, but mostly fresh verses by a young or unpublished poet.