An English Anthology (Paperback)

`I was born in Belgium, I’m Belgian. / But Belgium was never born in me.’ So writes Leonard Nolens in `Place and Date’, which captures a mood of political and social disillusionment amid a generation of Dutch-speaking Belgians. And throughout this selection we encounter a poet engaged with the question of national identity. Frequently the poet moves into that risky terrain, the firstperson plural, in which he speaks as and for a generation of Flemings, embodying an attitude towards artistic and political commitment that he considers its defining mark. `We curled up dejectedly in the spare wheel of May sixtyeight’, he writes in the selection’s central sequence `Breach’. Nolens’ poetry is haunted by giants of twentieth-century European lyricism, by Rilke, Valéry, Neruda, Mandelstam and Celan, with whom he has arguably more affinity than with much poetry from the Dutch-language canon.

General

Imprint:	Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2018
Authors:	Leonard Nolens
Translators:	Paul Vincent
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-78410-574-7
Subtitles:	Dutch
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-78410-574-0
Barcode:	9781784105747

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