Ellen Deckwitz
(Netherlands, 1982)
by Janita Monna She was convincingly crowned national slam champion in 2009; then two years later she scored again with her work on paper: De steen vreest mij (The stone fears me, 2011) won the C. Buddingh’ Prize for the best Dutch-language …

Maarten van der Graaff
(Netherlands, 1987)
by Thomas Möhlmann Maarten van der Graaff’s debut book Vluchtautogedichten (Getawaycarpoems, 2013) opens with the line ‘enormous enormous space’. In the 50 pages that follow, the poet fills this space by painting, sketching and blotting with …

Vrouwkje Tuinman
(Netherlands, 1974)
by Rob Schouten If there’s one word that defines the poetry and prose of Vrouwkje Tuinman, it is clarity. She describes the sensations and emotions of a woman in a sober and compact way, without exaggerated gestures. The lives of her protagonists …

Tsead Bruinja
(The Netherlands, 1974)
by Lodewijk Verduin Tsead Bruinja is a poet unafraid of delving into the alternative, the small and the unknown. For instance, Bruinja’s debut collection was written in Frisian: De wizers yn it read (The meters in the red) appeared in 2000, with little …