Esther Jansma is a leading Dutch poet as well as an influential
archaeologist. Interweaving a dazzling variety of strands, her
poetry explores time and memory, past and present, death, loss,
decay and legacy, and yet draws fresh power from these perennial
themes because she writes from two opposite but complementary
viewpoints. As an archaeologist she refined a technique for
establishing the age of wooden artefacts from growth-rings in the
wood which could be applied to timber from The Netherlands. Lending
a voice to the past, making time visible in all its aspects, is
also what she does in her poetry. The philosophical is earthed in
the everyday, the mythic intertwines with the mundane, the word
with the world. In her early work, the voices of the past are heard
from bewildering years: as a child, the death of a father, then as
a mother, the loss of a child. Her later poetry is less personal
but more compelling as her poetic universe expands, embracing the
whole world.
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