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One can be for seventy years a poet and still get better. Van Herreweghen is in no way an innovator but his languages sings and dances. He observes the world with smiling detachment. The seasons pass as they always have, the farmer goes on...

In the Dutch-speaking world Kopland has always been a popular and fêted poet. Readers have sought solace in his casual wisdom. His poetry provides a space for spiritual reflection, albeit abandoned by God.

There have always been poets who deliberately resign themselves to the existence of tradition and renounce all claims to originality. Menno Wigman (1966) is one of them. This Dutch Baudelaire describes the decadent ennui of his generation ...

The Dutch critics unanimously proclaimed her poetry debut a masterpiece.

Where does modern poetry end? You can discuss this for a long time too, but Gerbrandy suspects that if we look back in 2050, we shall find that modern poetry in the Netherlands ends with Tonnus Oosterhoff (1953-). Ever since his debut in 1...

For anyone familiar with Brassinga's (born 1948) work, pugnacity, witty contrariness and a bottomless melancholy have been at the heart of everything she has entrusted to paper in the last twenty years. Poetry is a natural phenomenon born o...

A Dutch poet responds to the diary of a Flemish poet by… writing his own. Nolens' diary lasts almost 30 years, counts almost 1000 pages, full of poetry, love and alcoholism. It's above all an uncompromising and cutting self analysis.

Anyone reviewing the landscape of the Dutch-language poetry of the last few years is bound to note that it is flourishing, that it is characterised by an enormously multi-facetted structure and that, considering its negligible economic imp...

The ‘repulsive oeuvre of a dangerous psychopath' or ‘the Netherlands' greatest poet': Gerrit Achterberg (1905-1962) is undoubtedly the most controversial figure in twentieth-century poetry. A hundred years after his birth he is still either...

The United Kingdom and The Netherlands' shared history has a big and often funny impact on each other's language.

Thanks to a new anthology, English-speaking readers can become acquainted with one of the Netherlands' most original and thought-provoking poets.

On 10 April 2020, the Dutch poet Hans Verhagen passed away at the age of 81 in his hometown Amsterdam.