Deelder writes poetry gift 2017 – Focus on News

Tuesday 21 June 2016 – 15:49 Update: 22-06-2016 8:34

Humor

the Poetry Week 2017 will take place from Thursday, January 26 t / m Wednesday, February 1st 2017. With the theme of humor in the Poetry Week 2017 comes attention to poems be laughable , from hilarity, familiarity or irony.

Humour and poetry? “Yes,” said Deelder (Rotterdam-Overschie, 1944), which will write the Poetry Gift 2017. With the theme of humor in the Poetry Week 2017 comes attention to poems be laughable, from hilarity, familiarity or irony. Humor is Deelder poetry certainly no curiosity. The Dutch poet of an extensive body of work is nationally and internationally known for his memorable performances, where the Beat Generation never seems far away.

On the eve of the Poetry Week is in the Netherlands for the 23rd time the VSB Poetry awarded in Flanders and the Herman de Coninck Prize. Poetry Week starts on Thursday, January 26 in Flanders and the Netherlands Poetry and runs t / m Wednesday, February 1st; the awards ceremony of the Turing Poetry. customers of the bookstore gain during Poetry Week in the purchase of € 12.50 to poetry Poetry Gift gift.

Poems are in our region rather than by severity associated with humor. The sorrow is endless and hopeless love. Yet there is also a lot of laughter in poets country. Sometimes there is the loud guffaw at a hilarious nonsense poem, often there is a grin of recognition.

irony or ridicule

The confusing situation described by the poet, we ourselves have all been there. Humor in poetry can also be uncomfortable: it is to laugh? Poets use humor also in the form of irony or ridicule to sue a social abuse. Humor is above all a way of dealing with the ambiguity of things to go and that is poetry no different …

Deelder

J. A. Deelder took his first steps in his career as a performer in 1966. After his poetry debut Gloria Satoria by De Bezige Bij followed many bundles with the latest publications Interim (2008), Ruisch (2011), The Descartes grave (2013) and Day and night (2014). In his often absurd, but always crystal clear poetry jazz is almost tangible.

The topics Deelder broaches the Second World War, Germany, Rotterdam, jazz and life of Deelder itself. In 1982 Deelder debuted as a prose writer with Schöne Welt. Hereafter published numerous short stories and opportunity costs including Deelderama (2001), Swing King (2006) and Deelder laughs (2007). Deelder received for his entire oeuvre Anna Blaman Price (1988), Johnny Van Doorn Prize for literature spoken (1999), and Tollens Price (2005). In 2005 he was also an Edison award for his CD Deelder keeps turning receive.

The Poetry Week is a Dutch-Flemish cooperation of Poetry International Foundation, Poetry Centre, Everybody Reads Flanders Reading Foundation Netherlands, Awater, Poëzieclub , the Literature House, Winter, BLOW, Language Union, SSS, Dutch Foundation for Literature, the Flemish Literature Fund, Turing Foundation VSB, Boek.be and CPNB. By bundling these activities, the organizers want to create a wider range of poetry.