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Winter-Lull
Because of the silent snow, we are all hushed
Into awe.
No sound of guns, nor overhead no rushed
Vibration to draw
Our attention out of the void wherein we are crushed.
A crow floats past on level wings
Noiselessly.
Uninterrupted silence swings
Invisibly, inaudibly
To and fro in our misgivings.
We do not look at each other, we hide
Our daunted eyes.
White earth, and ruins, ourselves, and nothing beside.
It all belies
Our existence; we wait, and are still denied.
We are folded together, men and the snowy ground
Into nullity.
There is silence, only the silence, never a sound
Nor a verity
To assist us; disastrously silence-bound!
D. H. Lawrence
(1885 –1930)
Winter-Lull
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TATE MODERN LONDON
Yoko Ono Music of the Mind
15 February – 1 September 2024
Delve into the powerful, participatory work of artist and activist Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (1933) is a leading figure in conceptual and performance art, experimental film and music. Developing her practice in America, Japan and the UK, she is renowned for her activism, work for world peace, and environmental campaigns. Ideas are central to her art, often expressed in poetic, humorous and radical ways.
Spanning more than seven decades, the exhibition focuses on key moments in Ono’s career, including her years in London from 1966 to 1971, where she met John Lennon (1940 – 1980).
The show explores some of Ono’s most talked about artworks and performances, from Cut Piece (1964), where people were invited to cut off her clothing, to her banned Film No.4 (Bottoms) (1966-67) which she created as a ‘petition for peace’.
Alongside her early performances, works on paper, objects, and music, audiences will discover a selection of her activist projects such as PEACE is POWER and Wish Tree, where visitors can contribute personal wishes for peace.
Through her instructions and event scores, Ono invites visitors to take part in both simple acts of the imagination and active encounters with her works.
The exhibition is organised by Tate Modern, London in collaboration with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Y O K O O N O & J O H N L E N N O N
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Intrede
As van kerstdromen
dwarrelt door de lucht
naast spokend karkas van
te jong gestorven boom.
Afvallige dozen, groot
fladderen over de weg
als losgebroken vogels
een paard zonder toom.
Aan slierten rouw klampt
oude jaar zich nog vast
gelijk geest die vergaat
het aanzien niet waard.
Rode ogen hoog boven
zwarte regenjassen staren
ins graue hinein tot de
eerste schok is bedaard.
Freda Kamphuis
Intrede
Gedicht uit poëziebundel :
TITEL, Uitgeverij Voetnoot, Antwerpen, 2014
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mens met witte pet
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An Opium Fantasy
Soft hangs the opiate in the brain,
And lulling soothes the edge of pain,
Till harshest sound, far off or near,
Sings floating in its mellow sphere.
What wakes me from my heavy dream?
Or am I still asleep?
Those long and soft vibrations seem
A slumberous charm to keep.
The graceful play, a moment stopt,
Distance again unrolls,
Like silver balls, that, softly dropt,
Ring into golden bowls.
I question of the poppies red,
The fairy flaunting band,
While I, a weed with drooping head,
Within their phalanx stand:
‘’Some airy one, with scarlet cap,
The name unfold to me
Of this new minstrel who can lap
Sleep in his melody!”
Bright grew their scarlet-kerchief’d heads.
As freshening winds had blown,
And from their gently-swaying beds
They sang in undertone:
“Oh he is but a little owl,
The smallest of his kin,
Who sits beneath the midnight’s cowl
And makes this airy din.”
“Deceitful tongues of fiery tints!
Far more than this ye know,
That he is your enchanted prince
Doom’d as an owl to go;–
“Nor his fond play for years hath stopt.
But nightly he unrolls
His silver balls, that, softly dropt,
Ring into golden bowls.’
Maria White Lowell
(1821 – 1853)
An Opium Fantasy
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Astrid Lampe, dichter, acteur en regisseur, heeft de P.C. Hooftprijs 2024 voor poëzie toegekend gekregen. De uitreiking zal eind mei plaatsvinden.
De P.C. Hooft-prijs 2024 voor het oeuvre van Astrid Lampe is toegekend op voordracht van een jury bestaande uit Tsead Bruinja, Kiki Coumans, Maarten van der Graaff, Alfred Schaffer en Kila van der Starre (voorzitter).
‘Astrid Lampe dicht met een diabolische intensiteit over het moderne leven, in zinnelijke en ontembare taal die vraagt om herlezing en herbeluistering. Ze laat lyriek en gevonden taal in elkaar overlopen, waarbij ze geen enkel register onbenut laat. Het resultaat is een open tekst, taal die zich bewust is van zichzelf en van haar grenzen. Lampe’s oog – en vooral ook oor – voor de invloed van digitale technologie op economie, klimaat en genderverhoudingen vallen op in haar oeuvre (…). Ze heeft de poëzie beïnvloed van veel jongere dichters in het Nederlands taalgebied.’
De jury vindt dat Lampe al sinds haar debuutbundel Rib (1997) in haar gedichten prangende vragen stelt over klimaat, lichamelijkheid en digitalisering. Ze noemen haar een van de meest eigenzinnige en genereuze dichters van onze tijd.
Het oeuvre van Astrid Lampe is opvallend onconventioneel en meerstemmig en omvat dertien poëziebundels – inclusief een woord-en-beeld-samenwerking met Roland Sohier, een alternatief Poëzieweekgeschenk met poetry stills en een citybook over Utrecht. Ze put uit literaire bronnen en ontleent taal aan de wereld van marketing, internet, de kunsten en de politiek. Zelf omschrijft Lampe haar werk als radicaal lyrisch. Activistisch, dwars, energiek.
Astrid Lampe (Tilburg, 1955) woont en werkt in Utrecht.
Dichtbundels:
1997 – Rib
2000 – De sok weer aan
2002 – De memen van Lara
2005 – Spuit je ralkleur
2007 – Park Slope: K’NEX studies
2010 – Lil (zucht)
2013 – Rouw met diertjes
2015 – De taiga zwijntjes
2018 – Zusterstad 2.0
2021 – Tulpenwodka
Over de prijs:
De P.C. Hooft-prijs voor Letterkunde is de belangrijkste Nederlandse literatuurprijs voor een oeuvre. Deze staatsprijs wordt jaarlijks toegekend, afwisselend voor verhalend proza, beschouwend proza en poëzie. Het Literatuurmuseum verzorgt de toekenning en de uitreiking van deze prijs. De P.C. Hooft-prijs bedraagt 60.000 euro. Bij de geldprijs hoort een oorkonde en een bronzen beeldje van P.C. Hooft (1581–1647), een replica van een buste gemaakt door Frits Sieger, die in de Amsterdamse Jan Luijkenstraat staat. Recente laureaten in het genre poëzie zijn Alfred Schaffer (2021), H.C. ten Berge (2006), Judith Herzberg (1997) en J. Bernlef (1994).
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kanteling
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Aftermath
When the summer fields are mown,
When the birds are fledged and flown,
And the dry leaves strew the path;
With the falling of the snow,
With the cawing of the crow,
Once again the fields we mow
And gather in the aftermath.
Not the sweet, new grass with flowers
Is this harvesting of ours;
Not the upland clover bloom;
But the rowen mixed with weeds,
Tangled tufts from marsh and meads,
Where the poppy drops its seeds
In the silence and the gloom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807–1882)
Aftermath
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Chaucer
An old man in a lodge within a park;
The chamber walls depicted all around
With portraitures of huntsman, hawk, and hound,
And the hurt deer. He listeneth to the lark,
Whose song comes with the sunshine through the dark
Of painted glass in leaden lattice bound;
He listeneth and he laugheth at the sound,
Then writeth in a book like any clerk.
He is the poet of the dawn, who wrote
The Canterbury Tales, and his old age
Made beautiful with song; and as I read
I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note
Of lark and linnet, and from every page
Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807–1882)
Chaucer
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ijsbloemen
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In this gorgeous third collection, Sandra Lim investigates desire, sexuality, and dream with sinewy intelligence and a startling freshness.
Truthful, sensuous, and intellectually relentless, the poems in The Curious Thing are compelling meditations on love, art making, solitude, female fate, and both the mundane and serious principles of life. Sandra Lim’s poetry displays stinging wit and a tough-minded approach to her own experiences: She speaks with Jean Rhys about beauty, encounters the dark loneliness that can exist inside a relationship, and discovers a coiled anger on a hot summer day.
An extended poem sequence slyly revolves the meanings of finding oneself astray in midlife. A steely strength courses through the volume’s myriad discoveries―Lim’s lucidity and tenderness form a striking complement to her remarkable metaphors and the emotional clamor of her material.
Animated by a sense of reckoning and a piercing inwardness, these anti-sentimental poems nevertheless celebrate the passionate and empathetic subjective life.
Sandra Lim was born in Seoul, South Korea. She is the author of three poetry collections, The Curious Thing, Loveliest Grotesque and The Wilderness, chosen by Louise Glück for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. She has received many honors for her work, including the Levis Reading Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from MacDowell and the Getty Foundation. She is a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sandra Lim:
The Curious Thing.
Poems
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
October 10, 2023
80 pages
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-324-06618-7
Price $16.95
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-393-86789-3
Price $26.95
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Niels Landstra
Uit de schaduw naar het andere licht
gedichten
Verschijnt 30 november 2023
website: https://www.kijkgedichten.nl/
Niels Landstra (1966) is dichter, schrijver, muzikant, zanger, beeldend kunstenaar en theatermaker.
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