Ramsey Nasr

Start van een nieuwe serie poëzieprogramma’s met een middag over en met de poëzie van dichter Gerrit Kouwenaar, de grootste dichter van ons taalgebied. Kouwenaar, die begon als ‘Vijftiger’ met collega’s als Lucebert, Vinkenoog en Campert, en iedereen in 2004 opnieuw verraste met zijn bundel ... (more)Totaal witte kamer, zal deze middag bij hoge uitzondering zelf voorlezen. In aansluiting op zijn werk is er muziek door celliste Larissa Groeneveld en bijdragen van de dichter Bernlef, dichter des vaderlands Ramsey Nasr en letterkundige Gaston Franssens. Presentatie is in handen van journaliste en Kunststof-presentator Petra Possel.

Prize-winning poet, essayist, dramatist and actor Ramsey Nasr, born 1974 in Rotterdam into a Palestinian-Dutch family, was voted Poet Laureate of the Netherlands in 2009. A man of many passions, including classical music, drama, poetry and travel, as city poet of Antwerp in 2005 his appearances were ... (more)attended like pop concerts. Banipal’s publication of Heavenly Life, a collection of his poems translated by David Colmer, brings his work for the first time to an English-speaking audience. For poet Marilyn Hacker, ‘Ramsey Nasr is already a polyvalent literary figure in his own country and language – multi-faceted, virtuosic, irreverent and polymath. His poems, in every form and register from sonnet to Whitmanian tirade, do not balk at history, whether that of his family’s situation in the West Bank or the fate of Dutch Jewish musicians and Mahler’s music during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands – to name but two stopping points. Nasr will be in conversation with prizewinning British poet Ruth Padel, who has published seven poetry collections, a wide range of non-fiction, and a novel, Where the Serpent Lives. Tickets: £9 (£6 concessions and LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details) Book online at http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/events