Tag Archives: Poetry

Translating poetry: the art of damage control

I have been asked to do a translation of the Dutch poem “Stad aan de Wadden” by Simon Vestdijk. It is a poem about Harlingen, a Dutch town on the shores of the Wadden sea in the North of the Netherlands. The town has a long history of fishing and shipping and as such has …

February 24, 2010 – 10:46 am | By Henk | Posted in Poetry, Scratch pad | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Horizon not obtained (poem)

Driving To nowhere The road stretches Pointing I stop the car And step outside I begin walking A random field Waterlogged And muddy I persevere Feet sinking deeper Hours pass A random direction I stop walking Horizon not obtained

February 7, 2010 – 4:19 pm | By Henk | Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Snippets of poetry

Off and on I am working on my third poetry collection. It is progressing nicely and ideas keep cropping up in my head. As with the previous poetry collections the poems are short, rebellious in their disregard of rhyme and rhyming schemes and an island on to themselves in my little creative empire. For that …

January 13, 2010 – 2:32 pm | By Henk | Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

holiday over, working again

I took a bit of a break. The head was empty and the ideas just would not come. So a fortnight of doing not a lot – ‘doing nothing’ does not figure in my book – was called for. This week the creative juices started flowing again. And how! Lots of ideas presented themselves to …

August 26, 2009 – 11:02 am | By Henk | Posted in News | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)