E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

Good news.  A very fine young Dutch poet, who also writes and published in English,  Nikki Dekker , has translated several of Mark Boog 's poems from the Dutch for Eyewear .  Boog is one of the most popular and criticaly appreciated poets currently writing in The Netherlands.  Here they are, published here online for the first time.       It seems it will rain It seems it will rain. In silent anticipation the grey morning, which just can’t help being dry, little. Somewhere the relief of expectations that come true, no matter how bleak. Not to rain is unacceptable. The other, accomplished, and the shortcomings, they complete each other. Illustrations, nothing but illustrations. On the bed, in the room that looks colourless, bled to death, a colourless figure. White, scrawny and forthcoming the facade and the linens. What is the bed doing in the living room? The bed lives in the living room. It will rain, it i...

I am very honoured to appear in the debut edition of  the new international literary E-zine: azul .   azul will be published twice a year and is available for free from the dynamic international  Azul Press , in Holland.

Eyewear is very glad to welcome Dutch poet  Hans van de Waarsenburg  (pictured) to these pages this rainy Friday in London.  He was born in  Helmond  in1943 and published his first collection of poems, Gedichten ( Poems ), in 1965. His collection De vergrijzing ( The graying ) was awarded the prestigious Jan Campert Prize for Poetry in 1973. In March 2004 he received the first Municipal Award of the Helmond Town Council for his entire work. Between 1997 and 2000 he was chairman of the PEN Centre of the Netherlands. In 1997 he became chairman of The Maastricht International Poetry Nights  - an impressive biannual international poetry festival that was held for the seventh time in October 2010.  It was there that I first met this larger-than-life figure, a charismatic, fun, gregarious figure, whose love of poetry and poets radiates from his very being.  Since the 70s he has gone on to publish many books, from presses as far afield as Mexico. ...