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TERUGLUISTEREN: Dichter bij Gorter Dichter bij Gorter

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▼ Robert Anker

► Robert Anker

It's all lukewarm mush
ONE OF US VIII
HOMESICK FOR THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME
Dad mum, where your son counts his days though not his drinks
Don't forget to comb your hair
BALLAD OF MY AUNT CALLING TO WISH ME A HAPPY BIRTHDAY OR VICE VERSA
He always wants to play chess with us, but he misses the pieces
I was late as usual
HOMESICK FOR THE DARK

▼ Armando

► Armando

SOURCE
UNSTEADY
SEEN
BEAUTIFUL
EIGHT
SURRENDER
THE FATHER
DAY AND NIGHT
HOLY
WAKE UP
LIGHT
SOMETHING’S COMING
SAYING NOTHING

▼ H.H. ter Balkt

► H.H. ter Balkt

THE POTATO-GRADING MACHINE
THE VILLAGE STATION
TIMID FIRE
THE ANIMAL CRUSADE
TO THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS 2
SINGRAVEN CASTLE
NINTH CENTURY
THE ANTS

▼ Maria Barnas

► Maria Barnas

ANTHOLOGY OF FEAR
TWO SUNS
WHERE THE POET READS
IT IS RAINING ON THE FREDERIKSPLEIN
YEAH-YEAH THE BIG BANG
ISTANBUL
MOTHERS

▼ J. Bernlef

► J. Bernlef

OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND
THE MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD
THIS IS THE WORLD
VIEW OF THE FUTURE
AFTER THE DEPRESSION
CONSERVATORY
MINDFUL OF THE LICENTIOUS RAKE
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS

▼ Hannah van Binsbergen

► Hannah van Binsbergen

YOUNG SMOKERS
Last night my cover was blown on the children’s news
UNLUCKY STAR
QUITE NAKED APART FROM AN OLD VEST
Now that everyone is looking over my shoulder

▼ Mark Boog

► Mark Boog

SMALL HOUSE
SO IT MUST BE
SO WITHOUT WORRY ARE WE
BETWEEN THE TENTS
SOMEWHERE
THE EVENING DRAWS NEAR
HAPPINESS
WATER, ASPIRIN, YOU
IT'S ALL THERE, EVERYTHING
LOVE
OLD FORTUNE
PLAYFUL EASE

▼ Pieter Boskma

► Pieter Boskma

Your ash danced for a moment on the south wind
SELF-PORTRAIT AS DIRTY OLD MAN
AROUSING SELF-PORTRAIT
SELF-PORTRAIT AS FLOWERING LINK
SELF-PORTRAIT AS SELF
SELF-PORTRAIT AS VOID
SELF-PORTRAIT AS ELEMENT
You’re so quiet and soft that I

▼ Anneke Brassinga

► Anneke Brassinga

BEETHOVEN ON THE BEAUFORT SCALE
DRIFT ICE
THE HAPPY ENDING
TO GOD

▼ Tsead Bruinja

► Tsead Bruinja

GOOSE
GRASS THAT’S ALREADY LAUGHING
SECRET LABOURING
BRIDGEMASTER
PORTER
QUOTE I
CELLAR
FISH BONE

▼ Remco Campert

► Remco Campert

FORGOTTEN FIELD
ARRANGEMENT
I JUST WANTED TO SAY
IN THE RESTAURANT
MUMBLINGS
OLD STORY
LAMENT
PHOTOGRAPH AFTER THE RAID
LIGHT
POETRY
SAILOR’S SONG
SCALE MODEL

▼ Jules Deelder

► Jules Deelder

POEM WHILE WAITING
FOR ARI
ORACLE
THE HUMOUR OF THE ROMANS

The Ring der Kribelungen
Saxonian twilight
The unicorn's fate

▼ F. van Dixhoorn

► F. van Dixhoorn

CHESTNUT JOE
THE SUN IN THE PAN

▼ Arjen Duinker

► Arjen Duinker

AMBITION
FOR JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO
MARBLES
AND IT'S DARK
A POEM
WHEREVER
LONG LIVE GOD, LUIS JUST SAID

▼ Anna Enquist

► Anna Enquist

CARRYING
PHOTO
SONG
SCHUBERT
PAVANE
CHOIR
GOOD ADVICE
THE DRUM
BEGINNING
VOICE

▼ Hans Faverey

► Hans Faverey

Man & dolphin
A circle rewriting its ellipse
First the message kills
Only when all has been ordered
If nothing at all actually exists,
This slope it fled along
Road left alone, losing itself
Once I begin to go
My aquarium houses as many liters
Something like a desert of his own:
Where the apricot tree

▼ Rodaan Al Galidi

► Rodaan Al Galidi

Speak me, life
Life, move in with me
In the morning I see life
Poem, I am thinking you now
Meetings

▼ Piet Gerbrandy

► Piet Gerbrandy

The girl opposite me has switched off her device
The days in which you were dead were trifling and long
Now all the leaks are stopped

▼ Jan Glas

► Jan Glas

CHINESE

▼ Jacob Groot

► Jacob Groot

HER LEGS
LOCAL UNIVERSE
OPENED ENDING
PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ABSENTEE
TO SEE
JEWELLERY DOESN’T STEAL
WIMPLED ONE
RELEASE ME, THE TIME HAS COME
FLIRT
CAST

▼ Micha Hamel

► Micha Hamel

MAMMOTH
POP STAR
WANDERING THOUGHTS (DURING A MEETING)
THANKS FOR COMING
VANITAS
DARK MATTER
RESTAURANT

▼ Tsjêbbe Hettinga

► Tsjêbbe Hettinga

TEEMING WITH SEAGULLS
BEYOND THE SALT MARSH AND NOWHERE CITY

▼ Sasja Janssen

► Sasja Janssen

Fabel mij
THE WAY TO BURY A HAND
Just used words until today
ENOUGH I POETRY
Omdat ik reizen moet

▼ C.O. Jellema

► C.O. Jellema

MEMORY OF ANDRITSENA
FRANSUM CHAPEL
WHY NOT, BODY?
REMEMBRANCE
AS A CHILD
AS A HOUSE
AS A GARDEN

▼ Hester Knibbe

► Hester Knibbe

Let us burn
THEBES

Sometimes we mimic migrating birds
I take the brains the tongue and the cheeks,
YES

▼ antoine de kom

► antoine de kom

what I miss mainly
first there were children
against neither flight nor light
somewhere in damascus

▼ Gerrit Komrij

► Gerrit Komrij

PANDORA
MOTHER
BUGABOO

▼ Rutger Kopland

► Rutger Kopland

MOTHER AND SON
AGAINST THE CREAKING GATE
STROLL
PSALM
CONVERSATION
THE LATEST FINDINGS
A CHORALE
LETTER

▼ Gerrit Kouwenaar

► Gerrit Kouwenaar

SO IT'S A PEACEFUL EVENING
STILL LIFE
THE MORNING
Poetry International 1976
A JOKE THAT'S ALLOWED
THE DAY
THIRD SONG
THE MASTERPIECE: LIGHT PINK MOON, FULL
ONE MUST
WHILE ONE IS AT TABLE

▼ Marc Kregting

► Marc Kregting

COME ON, COME OVER
CONCERNING ETIQUETTE
DARNING NEEDLE'S ANNUNCIATION
FALSETTO TREASURES DEPTH
In his hair mist droops
RESTORATION
What is a hand?
– Above these mountains of salt, loss sets in

▼ Gerrit Krol

► Gerrit Krol

ROBIN
FAIRY TALE

▼ Marije Langelaar

► Marije Langelaar

Slipped in the tub
Free
IJMUIDEN
Do not let yourself be robbed
BIRD
And they asked me
I am the lord of the edge
CITY
Now
GRASS

▼ Joke van Leeuwen

► Joke van Leeuwen

CONTROL
PREPARATION FOR THE EXAM
LONELY FUNERAL
FIRE AND WATER
OVERVIEW
OTHER SIDE
IN THE QUEUE
SNORKELLING
AFTERWORD
GROUNDED

▼ Peter van Lier

► Peter van Lier

HORSE JOY (I)
HORSE JOY (II)
CONCERNING A FUNCTION IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
PROSAIC
LOVE OF NATURE
Above me a dove in flight. A slight movement in

▼ Erik Lindner

► Erik Lindner

OURCQ
TO ACEDIA
There is blood in your lips
TEMPORARY STOP
THE TRAMONTANA
The window opens a crack
When I can escape my words no longer
18 SEPTEMBER 1994

▼ Erik Menkveld

► Erik Menkveld

HEART-DEPTHS
HEART-DEPTHS
THE NEW FISH
DREAMWATER
CHORUS OF UNHEARD INFERIOR TIMBER
HOW WE SPOKE
EVERYANIMAL
CURRENT

▼ Ramsey Nasr

► Ramsey Nasr

TURN MY MOTHER
WHAT'S LEFT
THE SUBHUMAN AND HIS HABITAT
CREDO
WONDERFUL MONTH
FINAL CHORUS
EVERY TEAR A MINUS
SILLY JULIET
THE CONSPIRACY
TRUE LOVER
THE HUDSON SONNETS

▼ Tonnus Oosterhoff

► Tonnus Oosterhoff

SILLY TOGETHER
now my belly unlatched
LEOPARD
IN THE JELLYFISH THE SEA CALLS
I've long had convictions, never been convinced
How gladly I saw the widower a sprig of roses
We went to bed early, shortest night, longest day.
(She tells us:) you don’t even notice from the memory
TO THE SOUTH
The whole of Utrecht station falls into the light
The chubby bird on my kid’s belt buckle

▼ Willem Jan Otten

► Willem Jan Otten

BEFORE THE LEAP

▼ Ester Naomi Perquin

► Ester Naomi Perquin

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING CHICKEN
NOW I THINK ABOUT IT
THE LAST UNKNOWN PERSON
EXAMPLE
LEGAL ACTIVITIES 1 & 2
BIG BROTHER
THERE IS STILL A LOT LEFT
CONNECTION
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
STRANGERS
STATE SECRET
CONVERSATION ON THE STREET
AT FULL MOON
ARCHITECTS
SURVEY

▼ Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

► Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Giro giro tondo 12
AND WHAT IT MEANS
IDYLLS – 34
Giro giro tondo 1
Giro giro tondo 13
A CORINTHIAN ODE
Giro giro tondo 2
Giro giro tondo 14
IDYLLS – 40
Giro giro tondo 3
Giro giro tondo 15
IDYLLS – 50
Giro giro tondo 4
Giro giro tondo 5
Giro giro tondo 6
Giro giro tondo 7
Giro giro tondo 9
Giro giro tondo 10
IDYLLS – 1
Giro giro tondo 11
Giro giro tondo 8
IDYLLS – 26

▼ Sybren Polet

► Sybren Polet

SPACE GLOW

▼ Martin Reints

► Martin Reints

OLD MEETING ROOM
SINGER-SONGWRITER

▼ L.F. Rosen

► L.F. Rosen

ANGULAR LIGHT
SHELTER
FLUID PARENTS
HUMANITY, FOREVER DRILLING
JUBILEE
THE WILD ONCE
LUNG FUNCTIONS
FIRE AND ENTRAILS
QUESTIONS FOR THE FLESH
THIS IS HOW IT WILL BE
THEIR NAKEDNESS
TO MY TRANSLATOR

▼ Alfred Schaffer

► Alfred Schaffer

LOONEY TUNES
SHAKA’S BRIEF FLIRTATION WITH ROMANCE
THE CEREMONY IN SOUND AND IMAGE
‘SELF-PORTRAIT AS SINTERKLAAS’ – DAY(DREAM) #1,015
THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE
DAY(DREAM) #9,377
THE SITUATION AS CLOSING TIME APPROACHES
TIME AND PLACE
YOU HAVEN'T SAID A WORD YET
‘SELF-PORTRAIT AS 007’ – DAY(DREAM) #1,516
DAY(DREAM) #5,106
GOING, GOING, GONE
‘VISIT’ – (DAY)DREAM #3,623
DAY(DREAM) #526
LAND AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
DAY(DREAM) #3
LIKE A FAIRYTALE FOREST, THOROUGHLY SCOURED
DAY(DREAM) #598
LIKE A RIVER, ABANDONED IN ALL HASTE
‘NEW YEAR’ – DAY(DREAM) #1,354

▼ K. Schippers

► K. Schippers

LUNCH
FOURTH FLOOR, ROOM 5
THINGS YOU ONLY NEED TO REMEMBER BRIEFLY
THE LAUNDRY ABROAD
IN THE CROWDED COUNTRY
BETWEEN THEM
ASSOCIATED OBSERVATION
man looks near shed
THE GIFT
WEIGHT
PAPER HANDKERCHIEFS
MONTAGE
RESTING SEPARATELY
ANOTHER’S TIME
ARRANGEMENTS
HALF GAZE
WITH OF
BLACK
AN ESTIMATE OF MISSING WEIGHT
THE POSITION OF MOLES IN THE SKY
A ROOM
OFF-SCREEN
WOOL
IN THE DISTANCE
SHAVINGS

▼ Albertina Soepboer

► Albertina Soepboer

CANDY SAYS
DECEMBER IS THE COOLEST MONTH
ENCOUNTER
I’LL NEVER BE YOUR MAGGIE MAY
PIGEONS
ROOTS

▼ Mustafa Stitou

► Mustafa Stitou

THE BASICS
PIGHEADED
Sometimes a woman decides to lie down on the bed
TYPICAL
FOREFATHERS, DOWNSTAIRS NEIGHBOURS
CINEMA
ANECDOTES, REVELATIONS
ANTON
Magnificent if sagging ass
MOTHER TONGUE
Once, I had this vision: in a cavern

▼ Toon Tellegen

► Toon Tellegen

GOD IN A DRESS
DE GEDACHTE
WEATHER FORECAST
HUIZEN
EEN BRIEFJE

▼ Anne Vegter

► Anne Vegter

GAMMA
GEBED VOOR IEDEREEN

▼ Nyk de Vries

► Nyk de Vries

IN THE ALPS
GREENGROCER
ROOM
MOTORMAN
CARNIVAL
I DIVED INTO A BAY

▼ Henk van der Waal

► Henk van der Waal

OR LIKE
It's very uncertain whether by . . .
without, you're a prey to yourself . . .
THE FOURTH PERSON SINGULAR
nothing, not hard work or watching . . .
apart from chance you're silence too developed . . .

▼ Rogi Wieg

► Rogi Wieg

IN MEMORIAM ROGI WIEG
DE LETTERS
DE LETTERS
IN MEMORIAM GEERT VAN OORSCHOT
IN MEMORIAM ADRIAAN MORRIËN
RAYMOND CARVER
NOT REVOLVERS

▼ Menno Wigman

► Menno Wigman

ROOM 421
PROMESSE DE BONHEUR

▼ Nachoem M. Wijnberg

► Nachoem M. Wijnberg

Into politics
WHEN I SIT DOWN AT MY TABLE I GET A CUP OF COFFEE AND A GLASS OF WATER
WHEN SOMEONE ASKED SHOTETSU THIS, HE ANSWERED THUS
Like a law or a poem...
SONG
SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO BLOW THEIR BRAINS OUT FOR LOVE TAKES IT SERIOUSLY AND THAT IS IMPORTANT
Evening
THE CHRISTIAN COMES TO VISIT
Nothing, nothing, nothing
ANOTHER OF GHALIB’S JOKES
MY FATHER SAYS THAT IT IS SENSIBLE TO GET INTO SOMETHING IN WHICH MEDIOCRITY IS NOT TOO BAD, LIKE THE FIELD IN WHICH I AM A PROFESSOR
SONG
DESIRE
MORNING AND EVENING SONG
I KNOW
DO I HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS?
SONG
RESEARCH REPORT
SONG
SONG
EXACTLY THAT MUCH
SONG
Another one to do again, about cultural Zionism
SOMETHING ELSE
SONG

▼ B. Zwaal

► B. Zwaal

the sea jerks
there sails the carolien
away from the distance walks a goat
something calls out
the water is vatted
hiding, collecting rain, behind the tree
a drifter catches rivers
I was the linden well-disposed but honoured too the beech