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This week's Friday Verses are written by Philip Hoorne. We translated his poem ‘And Then There’s Cake’.

The number of city poets in the Netherlands and Flanders is steadily increasing. The present figure for the Netherlands is about thirty. In Flanders only five cities so far have named a city poet: Antwerp, Ghent, Ninove in East Flanders, Da...

It was with Jan Cremer (born 1940) that literature first encountered publicity focused primarily on the writer. In 1964 he wrote the right book at the right time. After the runaway success of I Jan Cremer he fled to the United States, stayi...

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 Sometimes an old forgotten poem, but mostly fresh verses by a young or unpublished poet.

Have you ever wondered why orange is the colour of the Netherlands? You find the answer in the sixteenth century.