– 03/09/15, 16:52
© anp. Harry to Balkt won the 2003 PC Hooft Prize.
Harry to Balkt originating teacher in the east of the country, is deceased at the age of 76. He was one of our most earthy yet one of our most baroque poets. Already at its debut in 1969, “Farmer Poems With either the farmer ax, he called a kind of primal Netherlands on, full of ecstatic joy language but also with prophetic power.
His former pseudonym Habakkuk II Balker points already there. It was a world that modern man the band seemed to be lost; against machinery and technology he put in the power of the past. But his social resistance was primarily a poetical resisted the beautiful writers of his time: “Speed the basket of free art” he snapped still in the late beam Plane Magnet from 2011.
Poetry for heart
As one of the descendants of the Fifties wrote the tireless Ter Balkt poetry for the heart, for the stentorian and for the thick gestures. Together with his characteristic voice and artless prevent it made him an indelible figure in the Dutch postwar poetry. His most important works include the Low Lands hymns, which he released several editions. Were his early poems often a kind of peasant dance of language, in his later work, he turned more and more back to our national history, he the reader sometimes langademige verses like a mirror held up.
No compromise when he was he loved to grumble not until the end of the demise of our world. He got almost all poetry rates, including the 2003 PC Hooftprijs.
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