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De mooiste Japanse haiku’s, deel 2
(The Most Beautiful Japanese Haiku, part 2)
Poems by the Japanese haiku masters:
Bashô, Buson, Issa, Shiki and a large selection of other Japanese poets
Japanese (partly) -Dutch
Selection, introduction.
translation: Germain Droogenbroodt
Cover: Ho Huai-shuo
Illustrations: Leen FM de Vos
160 pages
ISBN: 9789490347215
Price: 19,50€, excluding postage
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“In de stroom van de tijd – En la corriente del tiempo”
(In the Stream of Time, Meditations in the Himalayas)
2nd Print!
Poetry by Germain Droogenbroodt
Dutch-Spanish
Cover & illustrations: Frans Minnaert
189 pages
ISBN: 978 94 90347 178
Price: 15,90€
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”De stem aan de andere kant -
La voz del otro lado”
Modern poetry from Argentina
Spanish-Dutch
Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt – Jean Schalekamp
Selection and introduction:: Rafael Carcelén
Cover: Chihung Yang
Published in the hard cover series: a selection of poetry by the best modern poets from Argentina, poems about love, hope, solitude, the dictatorship and daily life:
a mirror of contemporary Argentinean society, one of the world’s most fertile countries in contemporary poetry, poems of Roberto Juarroz, Juan Gelman, Ajejandra Pizarnik, Luisa Futoransky, Hugo Mujica, Leopoldo Castilla, Jorge Boccanera, Fabian Casas, Martín Gambarotta, Claudia Masín and Marina Mariasch.
178 pages
ISBN: 9789490347130
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THE NEW POETRY SERIES!
“FOUR NEW PUBLICATIONS!"
“Als een vlinder een gedicht wordt”
Modern Macedonian poetry
Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt-Ana Topencarova
Selection: Lidija Kapushevska-Vladimir Martinovski
76 pages
ISBN 978 94 90347 123
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“Tegenlicht - Contraluz”
2nd Print!
Poetry by Germain Droogenbroodt
Dutch-Spanish
Cover: Ho Huai-shuo
Illustrations: Satish Gupta
205 pages
ISBN: 978 94 90347 147
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de Weg – el Camino”
3rd print!
Poetry by Germain Droogenbroodt
Dutch - Spanish
Cover and illustrations: Satish Gupta
71 pages
ISBN: 978 94 90347 154
Price: 10,95€
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“EEN DICHTER VERGEET NIET”
2nd print!
Modern poetry from Poland
Poems by Czeslaw Milosz
Polish-Dutch
Translation: Kris Van Heuckelom
Cover: Jan Lebenstein
161 pages
ISBN 978 94 90347 048
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Happy New Year!
THE OLD YEAR WAS VERY FRUITFUL…
the new makes a good start…
The foundation Ithaca has collaborated for several years with the prestigious Music Course and Competition of Benidorm
Vicent Ballester, artistic director of the cultural Foundation ITHACA, at the booth of the Cultural Foundation ITHACA exposing the new publications of music books and scores published by Ithaca, the Spanish sister company of POINT Editions.
Lana Derkac, poet from Croatia, reading at the Poetry Meeting in Northern Cyprus
One of the fascinating Roman ruins in Northern Cyprus
Melancholy you crinkle in your hand
Is the sole mistress of midnight
And before morning all the shadows are in exile
Lilac no longer holds its original meaning
The whole room can remind one
Of some mute convoy of emptiness
Having conquered, silence prepares its manoeuvre
And you cannot hear the waves
Nor steal the foam
From which Aphrodite arose
All you can sense
Is how a colonel of some lethargic army
Deprives you of your senses, one by one
Slowly, very slowly.
Lana Derkac (Croatia)
Hawthornden Castle, Scotland
Poem by William Drummond of Hawthornden, (Scottish poet, 1585-1649)
Sharpened
by the fire of dawn
wanders the mind
over the waste land
of the day
which announces itself
as nothingness
virginal and perfect
an emptiness
that knows no borders
- located elsewhere
than in the world of men
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT
Hawthornden Castle, Tuesday 12th April 2011
The Cultural Foundation ITHACA organizes yearly in summer at its seat a series of cultural events, excellent music performances with multilingual poetry readings and exhibitions of paintings and sculptures.
An enthusiastic international audience at the ITHACA concerts
Rehearsal by the excellent quartet A Piacere, playing the Fandango of Boccherini
Struga Poetry Evenings, the oldest and most important international poetry festival of Europe, celebrated in 2011 its 50th Anniversary with hundreds of poets from all over the globe.
Mateja Matevski, excellent Macedonian poet, crowned with the golden wreath in the cathedral of Ohrid
Marc Michielsen, Ambassador of Belgium in Bulgaria and Danilo Kocevski , Director of Struga Poetry Evenings, introducing Germain Droogenbroodts Macedonian poetry book
The Orthodox cathedral of Ohrid, hiding inside a extensive collection of wonderful icons
The mosque of Struga, a thin pencil, pointing to heaven
To Maria
Stay among the vines
and with your eyes look for the last
traces of Green
and just with one eye
wink to the southern skies
till a voluptuous dreamingness overcomes them
and with your other eye
weep like the vine
over my lost footmarks
in your vineyard.
Radovan Pavlovski (Macedonia)
***
Roots in the air
In the air, that’s where your roots are,
over there, in the air
Paul Celan
- Where to, Doctor? Cemetery?
- Yes my friend, making my grave rounds.
Our mother’s there, my brother too, and the wife’s niece,
buried last year, only seventeen,
leukaemia, it seems. And you sir?
. Home. The day are getting shorter,
I like to stay home now.
- You’ve visited your graves already?
- I have no9 graves. My wife deserted me a long time ago,
as you may know, my sons are alive, but far away,
in Canada, yes Canada…
I have no graves…
- But what about your mother, your father, brothers,
grandparents, where are they buried?
- Over there, in the air over Auschwitz,
they’re buried in the air.
Milan Richter (Slovakia)
On the way back home from Macedonia, Germain Droogenbroodt stayed one more day in Sofia, hometown of his old friend and excellent Bulgarian poet-journalist Boiko Lambovski who invited him years ago at a Poetry & Wine Festival in Sofia and brought him around the country.
The Saint Nicolas church in Sofia
A unique and most surprising hotel lobby: original Roman images in relief.
Marina, our holidays are our punishment.
Our holidays are merciless exotic suns,
suddenly rising and suddenly setting,
and shame burns our faces.
Marina, our holidays are fragments
of the days when we were gods.
Love is a test to remind us
that we are wholly mortal.
And yet no wholly.
Which is why we must not pass each other by
as a miracle passes by
unbelieving eyes.
Let us once more, for a minute, be overwhelmed!
Let us for one minute be silent as a bell!
Marina, our holidays are our shame...
They make us great and we make them pitiful.
What's terrible is not that I am left alone.
The most terrible thing is that I love you
too little.
Boiko Lambovski (Bulgaria)
Translated by Ewald Osers
An enchanting seascape at Santa Maria Navarrese, Sardinia
The small harbour of Santa Maria Navarrese Sardinia
“Counterlight” (Controluce) translated into Italian by Tiziana Orrù
a spasso quattro volte al giorno.
Ignora capodanno e feste comandate
e il materiale dello pneumatico
su cui alza la zampa
ad irrorare
del primo istinto quotidiano
il mio risveglio.
*
I have to begin here
walks four times a day
ignores New Year’s and conventional holidays
and the tire material
upon which he lifts his paw
to sprinkle
with the first daily instinct
my awakening.
***
Io sbaglio sempre
e forse dovrei tenere un segno
acceso nella carne come un faro
Inciderlo sulla mano come una croce
una lettera indecifrabile
dell’alfabeto del dolore
che dica il qui e l’ora
dei miei sbagli:
tu lo sai, mi perdo
(o ci perdiamo entrambi
-ci perdiamo tutti)
smarrisco la via
della nostra quiete
che conduce al bacio
lieve del ritorno.
*
I always mess up
and I should be wearing a sign
lit like a beacon in my flesh
engraved in my hand, a cross
an indecipherable letter
from the alphabet of pain
it will say that is time
for my mistakes:
you know that, I get lost
(or we both get lost
- we all get lost)
losing the path
to the peacefulness
that leads to the soft kiss
of the way back.
Luca Benassi (Italy)
From “The Kitten’s Cage”
POINT Editions, founded in Belgium in 1984, exhibits yearly its publications of modern international poetry at the Book Fair in Antwerp
Before returning home after an exhausting Book Fair in Antwerp, a week to relax in Dordogne, a delight for the eye (and for the stomach)
The fascinating small city of Sarlat
The enchanting pink village of Collonges la Rouge
Rocamadour, on the way to Santiago de Compostella
January-February-March-April: Dénia Clàssics, Denia, Spain, Theatre Centre Social (always at 19h)
- 27th January: “Quintet de Metalls Al Vent”
- 24th February: Oliver KERN, piano. Famous pianist, playing Schubert, Chopin, Liszt
- 30th March: “Quintet de Corda “, with. Silvia Peña, soprano, Adriana García, mezzo soprano, Josep Vicent Giner, clavichord. Music by Vivaldi and Pergolesi
- 27th April: Carlos López, baritone, Vicent Ballester, guitar. Music by F. Sor,
I. Albéniz, M. de Falla
February
Granada, Nicaragua VIII Festival Internacional de Poesía de Granada 2012 13rd-19th February
Benidorm, Spain, XXII Curso Internacional &
XIV Concurso de Música de Benidorm
18th-25th February
20th April at the Palau Altea, Altea (Spain)
Exceptional Benefit Concert to support the organisation “Visió Sense Fronteres” (Vision without borders) which heals children in the 3rd world with eye problems.
Click Here to see the full programme
May- June
Friday 11th May at 20h, at the Casino of Elda (Spain)
(In the Stream of Time), Poetry recital in Spanish by Germain Droogenbroodt, poems selected form his latest poetry publication and new, unpublished work. Introduction by his Spanish translator, the poet-literary critic Rafael Carcelén, and piano intermezzos.
Benidorm-Ithaca Concerts, 2012
- 11th May: Javier Guna, oboe, and horn, Ximo Sancho, fagot, Josep Vicent Giner, clavichord. Music by A. Vivaldi, JS Bach, G.F. Händel, G.P. Telemann.
- 18th May: Silvia Peña, soprano, Vicent Ballester, guitar.. Music by F.G. Lorca, F. Sor, Manuel García/Francisco de Quevedo, Heitor Villalobos, Astor Piazzolla.
- 25th May: “Nova Música Jazz Quartet”, Pepe Fuster, sasophon, Manolo Cordero, piano, Alex Villar, contrabass, Chic Gammidge, drums: Music by Duke Ellinton, G. Gershwin, Chich Corea, Charly Parker.
- 1st June: “A piacere”, string quartet.Ana Requena and Patrica Genis, violin, Miguel Falomir, viola, Yolanda Bueso, violoncello, Pepe Fuster, saxophone. Music by J. Haydn, Piazzolla.
- 8th June: “el Camino” (The Road), poetry and recital by Germain Droogenbroodt, Rosa Vidal, violoncello, Vicent Ballester, guitar. Music by: Arvo Pärt, H. Villalobos…
More details will be added as soon as they are available