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donderdag 30 mei 2013

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Dutch poet Hans van de Waarsenburg published in English


Dutch poet Hans van de Waarsenburg published in English
A selection of poems by Dutch poet Hans van de Waarsenburg has been published in English. The small London-based poetry publisher Eyewear Publishing has brought out a volume titled The Past is Never Dead containing a selection of 170 poems translated by Peter Boreas.
Born in Helmond in 1943, Hans van de Waarsenburg published his first collection of poems, titled simply Gedichten (Poems), in 1965. He founded the Maastricht International Poetry Nights in 1998, a biennial festival which has brought distinguished international poets to Maastricht, including Seamus Heaney and Les Murray.

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