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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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Aminur Rahman, one of the finest poets from Bangladesh, translated into Bangla, the language of Bangladesh (and of Rabindranath Tagore) a selection of poetry by Germain Droogenbroodt, a bilingual Dutch-Bangla edition, illustrated by the famous painter Hamiduzzaman Khan and published by Syed Zakir Hussain, a well known publisher from Bangladesh.
From the mist’s dense cape
I carve your body’s shape --
gently sculpting, all morning.
With my eyes shut, I sit
amid the fog’s heavy sheets
as its frost settles
on my cheek, ear, and nose.
The same hands,
the same lips, the same eyes --
I find them with such ease --
Your torso floats on that river;
I shall conquer its flow.
Your figure blossoms, freeing itself,
leaving behind sun’s light
and fog’s ephemeral body.
You’re entwined with my soul --
its root, plinth, and depth.
Aminur Rahman
From: “Love Poems”
The 8th International Poetry Festival in Granada proved again to be one of the word’s best en without doubt, the most fascinating international poetry festival of all, with over 150 poets from all over and with its local star poets of international fame, such a Gioconda Belli and priest-poet Ernesto Cardenal. Guest of Honour at this years festival was Nobel Prize laureate Derek Walcott.
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt
Of Africa, Kikuyu, quick as flies,
Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt.
Corpses are scattered through a paradise.
Only the worm, colonel of carrion, cries:
'Waste no compassion on these separate dead!'
Statistics justify and scholars seize
The salients of colonial policy.
What is that to the white child hacked in bed?
To savages, expendable as Jews?
Threshed out by beaters, the long rushes break
In a white dust of ibises whose cries
Have wheeled since civilizations dawn
From the parched river or beast-teeming plain.
The violence of beast on beast is read
As natural law, but upright man
Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.
Delirious as these worried beasts, his wars
Dance to the tightened carcass of a drum,
While he calls courage still that native dread
Of the white peace contracted by the dead.
Again brutish necessity wipes its hands
Upon the napkin of a dirty cause, again
A waste of our compassion, as with Spain,
The gorilla wrestles with the superman.
I who am poisoned with the blood of both,
Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?
I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
Betray them both, or give back what they give?
How can I face such slaughter and be cool?
How can I turn from Africa and live?
Derek Walcott
The Belgian painter Yves Beaumont exhibited from 12 April till 5 May at Studio 1.1. Gallery in London. His work will illustrate “Unshadowed Light”, Germain Droogenbroodts next poetry book.
The painter and the Poet
Painting by Yves Beaumont
Painting by Yves Beaumont
An avalanche of thoughts
pours out
over the awaking day
shreds of shadow and light
disordered, deleted words
undecipherable signs
spinning around in the mind
which pursues them in vain
over the erased roads
of oblivion
Germain Droogenbroodt
From “Unshadowed Light”
Our Cultural Foundation ITHACA organized the 20th April an exceptionel Benefit Concert to support the organisation “Visió Sense Fronteres” (Vision without borders) which heals children in the 3rd world with eye problems
All the artists which performed at the Gala Concert
Vicent Ballester excellent artist and atistic director of the Foundatioin Ithaca
May- June
Friday 11th May at 20h, at the Casino of Elda (Spain)
”POE MAYO”
Primer Encuentro de Poesía Elda
Poetry recital in Spanish by Germain Droogenbroodt, selected form his “triptych” of philosophical poetry,
“el Camino” (The Road), “Contraluz” (Counterlight” and “En la corriente del tiempo” (In the Stream of Time, Meditations in the Himalayas).
and a few poems from “Unshadowed Light” his next book of poetry.
Introduction by his Spanish translator, the poet-literary critic Rafael Carcelén,
and classical music by a Quartet “Escuelo Queros”
May- June
The Poetic Evening Concerts of ITHACA, the famous music concerts with recital of poetry in various languages at the Foundation Ithaca.
This year with the famous tenor-guitar player Franco Todde and Serranito, one of the most important Spanish Flamenco guitar players and more virtuoso artists, his website with recorded performances is www.francotodde.com.
Full programme information will be posted on this website soon.-
Poetic Evening Conserts of Ithica
The 51 Struga Poetry Evenings, in Macedonia, the oldest and most famous international Poetry Festival of Europe, from 23 till 26 August.
October 4-7:
the 33rd Zagreb Literary Talks, Zagreb, Croatia
October- November:
from 31st October till the 11th November: Book Fair in Antwerp, Belgium. With launching of “Unshadowed Light”, Germain Droogenbroodts new poetry book, written last year at Hawthornden Caste International Retreat for Writers. There will be poetry n& music performances in several cities in Flanders.
More details will be added as soon as they are available
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