Erwin Mortier

Paul Vincent

A Mother's Book of Hours

Stammered Songbook

Jacob Slauerhoff

The Forbidden Kingdom

John Irons

Poetry. Translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent and John Irons. 100 DUTCH-LANGUAGE POEMS is a lovely selection of poems written in the Dutch language from the 11th century to the present day. For the poetry lover it is a comprehensive introduction to poetry from the Low Countries and provides a wonderful insight into the themes and issues that influenced generations of poets. The Dutch language and English translations are presented side by side making it a great resource for literature and language students and scholars. A detailed foreword by Paul Vincent and John Irons who selected and translated the poems, as well as an intriguing afterword by Gaston Franssen, assistant professor of Literary Culture at the University of Amsterdam, add additional value to this necessary anthology. PAUL VINCENT Paul received a BA (Hons) Modern Languages (German, Dutch, French) from University of Cambridge, UK in 1964. He undertook Postgraduate study at the University of Amsterdam during 1965-1966. He was awarded an MA from University of Cambridge in 1968. From 1967 to 1989 he was a full time Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Dutch Language and Literature at Bedford College, University of London, and afterwards at University College London. He left his academic career in 1989 to become a freelance translator of Dutch and German into English. He has translated many of the leading authors and poets from the Low Countries including Louis Couperus, Harry Mulisch, Willem Elsschot, Louis Paul Boon and Hugo Claus. He was the recipient of the first David Reid Poetry Translation Prize for the translation of Hendrik Marsman's famous poem 'Herinnering aan Holland' (Memory of Holland) in 2006, awarded by the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature. In 2012 Paul Vincent received the Vondel Prize for My Little War, his translation of Mijn kleine oorlog by Louis Paul Boon, published by Dalkey Archive. Paul Vincent is based in London. JOHN IRONS John Irons studied Modern & Medieval Languages (German, French, & Dutch) at Cambridge University and completed his PhD, The Development of Imagery in the Poetry of PC Boutens, at the same university. He worked as a senior lecturer at Odense University in Denmark. He has been a professional translator, from Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German and French to English, since 1987. He was awarded the NORLA translation prize for non-fiction in 2007. John Irons has worked on a long and distinguished list of publications and he has been a translator for Poetry International Rotterdam since 1996. He has translated several of the leading authors and poets from the Low Countries including anthologies of Dutch-language poets Hugo Claus and Gerrit Komrij. John Irons lives in Odense, Denmark. http: //johnirons.blogspot.co.uk/

From the Medieval Period to the Present Day

100 Dutch-Language Poems

Paul Tabone

CLUB TWISTED is one twisted book. With hard hitting stories ranging from, Crime Fiction, Thriller Suspense to Horror. With stories that pack punches and twists, with a special surprise in four of them, and in places you won't imagine. RADIO SMOKE: The naked branches on the trees moved like giant spider legs as the wind blew them, and the birds in those trees sung weary songs, and the crickets on the ground were starting their chirping for the evening. Everything gave the impression that the world was the same; nothing around her had changed. But she definitely had.' ECHOES: The elevator arrived, giving them both a start as it made a crunching sound when it stopped. As the elevator doors opened they heard a noise, a distant noise, like the sound of a speeding train getting nearer. It came closer and closer and was almost on top of them, when a pair of terrifying and ear piercing female screams joined in with the rushing sound, making the most macabre noise the women had ever heard. They joined hands and moved a step back away from the elevator's open doors.' THE LIGHTER: Eddie was now all secure and taped to a chair; Dean looked down at him, and thought about what he had in store for him, and what he would lose if he was caught. Dismissing the latter, he thought, Fuck it. And stuffed an old rag into Eddie's mouth then wrapped the tape tight around his head. Then he snipped the lock on the shed door so they wouldn't be disturbed.'

Club Twisted

The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle(1830–1899) is generally considered one of the masters of nineteenth-century European lyric poetry. At the end of his life and in the first two decades of the twentieth century, Gezellewas hailed by the avant-garde as the founder of modern Flemish poetry. His unique voice was belatedly recognised in the Netherlands and often compared with his English contemporary Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). In this bilingual anthology, award-winning translator Paul Vincent selects a representative picture of Gezelle’soutput, from devotional through narrative, to celebratory and expressionistic. Gezelle’sfavourite themes are childhood, the Flemish landscape, friendship, nature, religion and the Flemish vernacular, and his apparently simple poems conceal a sophisticated prosody and a dialogue with spiritual and literary tradition.However, an important barrier to wider international recognition of his lyric genius up to now has been the absence of translations that do justice to the vigour and musicality of Gezelle’sWest Flemish idiom. Two of the translations included go some way to redressing the balance: ‘TheWatter-Scriever’ by Scotland’s national poet Edwin Morgan and ‘A Little Leaf . . .’ by Francis Jones. Both translators make brilliant use of their own vernaculars (Glaswegian and North Yorkshire respectively) to bring Gezelleto life for the non-Dutch-speaking reader.

A Bilingual Anthology

Poems of Guido Gezelle

From an early age, author Paul Vincent has looked forward with joyful anticipation to sunsets and oncoming darkness, an attitude that appears to be counter to the scriptural counsels of his own faith community. In The Star at the End of the River, Vincent shares his important life experiences in order to describe a transformative spirituality of the night. Bringing to bear his forty years experience as an amateur astronomer, the author shows how sustained night-sky observation enhances the human receptivity to transcendent departure. Of the many treasures of the heavens, Vincent finds particular solace in a star he has never seenwhich, for that very reason, he regards as the most apt symbol of the human hope for eternal joy. The Star at the End of the River proposes a new kind of spiritual journeyan ascent, not of a mountain, as in the traditional imagery, but of an inclined plane. Vincent invites his readers to become contemplatives of the ordinary and to discover the mystical power of such commonplace objects and occurrences as road signs, supermarket aisles, interior stairways, gooseflesh, and penmanship.

Meditations on a Homeward Journey

The Star at the End of the River

Bert Wagendorp

During the summer of 1982, six friends - five boys and one girl - climb the legendary Mont Ventoux on their bikes. A tragic accident claims the life of one of them, the promising poet Peter. 30 years later, the others find themselves travelling into their past, with their racing bicycles strapped to the car roof, and their inner demons trailing behind them, off to the Provence region once again. But what exactly happened on that mountain 30 years ago and why are they going back?

Ventoux

CLUB TWISTED is one twisted book. With hard hitting stories ranging from, Crime Fiction, Thriller Suspense to Horror. With stories that pack punches and twists, with a special surprise in four of them, and in places you won’t imagine. RADIO SMOKE: ‘The naked branches on the trees moved like giant spider legs as the wind blew them, and the birds in those trees sung weary songs, and the crickets on the ground were starting their chirping for the evening. Everything gave the impression that the world was the same; nothing around her had changed. But she definitely had.’ ECHOES: ‘The elevator arrived, giving them both a start as it made a crunching sound when it stopped. As the elevator doors opened they heard a noise, a distant noise, like the sound of a speeding train getting nearer. It came closer and closer and was almost on top of them, when a pair of terrifying and ear piercing female screams joined in with the rushing sound, making the most macabre noise the women had ever heard. They joined hands and moved a step back away from the elevator’s open doors.’ THE LIGHTER: ‘Eddie was now all secure and taped to a chair; Dean looked down at him, and thought about what he had in store for him, and what he would lose if he was caught. Dismissing the latter, he thought, Fuck it. And stuffed an old rag into Eddie’s mouth then wrapped the tape tight around his head. Then he snipped the lock on the shed door so they wouldn’t be disturbed.’

CLUB TWISTED

Eric Dickens

This is the eighth volume in Dedalus's highly acclaimed European literary fantasy series and follows volumes from Austrian, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. During the nineteenth-century, Belgian literature was still largely written in the language of education, French. Then the Flemings, who inhabit the northern half of Belgium, became aware of the value of their own language, whose standardised form is, to all intents and purposes, Dutch. Modern Flemish literature was born. This anthology incorporates fantasy stories from the early twentieth century to the present day. The types of fantasy are various: horror, mysticism and magical realism being the dominant ones. One of the early authors is Felix Timmermans who started out with horror stories, but later ended up writing his inimitable Vitalist novels. Two magic realist authors stand out: Johan Daisne and Hubert Lampo. And horror is well represented by several authors including Hugo Claus, Hugo Raes and Ward Ruyslinck - all household names in Flanders. Interesting new authors include Annelies Verbeke and Peter Verhelst.

Paul Vincent

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