50 audio poems
Poetry International Festival Rotterdam
May 30, 2019
In this tour we celebrate 50 years of Poetry International in 50 recordings from our festival archives!
The choices for this selection are partly based on our festival anthology 50 Mooiste gedichten van de wereld (The 50 most beautiful poems in the world) in which 50 Dutch poets chose their personal favorites from our festival history. In addition, you will hear the thrilling diction and amazing sound of poets from around the world, and of course – classics from our festival archives, including Pablo Neruda, Seamus Heaney, Elisabeth Bishop and Joseph Brodsky. Last but certainly not least: four poets who have been invited to the 50th Poetry International Festival: Antjie Krog (South Africa), Rita Dove (USA), Raúl Zurita (Chile) and Jules Deelder (NL).
© Jan van Hemert
Poems
from: THE HEIGHTS OF MACHU PICCHU
MONSTER & MAIDEN
LEERSTUK OVER GELEEDPOTIGEN
REMARK
CHAIR
THE MOON MAN
from LONG SONNETS OF LEOCADIA
TULIP’S EAR
LOVE SONG FOR THE COUNTRIES
LAMENT
PAMAN DOBLANG
JIANG YUAN
SOLITARY SWEDISH HOUSES
GENETICS
poetry is capturing the mystery
THE TOLLUND MAN
HOME
The Large Thing
THE NARCISSUS FLOWER
ORACLE
May 24, 1980
OLD MAN BEAVER\'S BLESSING SONG
THAT EARLIEST OF ALL
SORRY BOUT THAT
NARRATIVE OUTSIDE THE PARK
BEETHOVEN ON THE BEAUFORT SCALE
TANGO XXII. HOMO LUDENS
OUTA SPACE SOCCER
CONVERSATION WITH MY DYING FATHER
‘SELF-PORTRAIT AS 007’ – DAY(DREAM) #1,516
DESERT II
FROM A PHOTO ALBUM
Fork
FRICTIONAL (PHONETICAL ETUDE NO. 2)
CAIDAS
198 x 4
THERE IS A DARKNESS
die sonne scheint
ABENDSPAZIERGANG
CIRQUE D’HIVER
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
DINOSAURS IN THE HOOD
1924
TRR . . .
THE FIRST CIRCLE
from ‘IMPOSSIBLE FLYING’
HISTORY OF AMOROUS DISCOURSE
STILL NOW
The voice was panic
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