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Menno Wigman

Menno Wigman is a leading Dutch poet and a former poet laureate of Amsterdam. He has published four full-length collections, with a fifth imminent. He has also translated Baudelaire and Rilke into Dutch.

3 Poems by Menno Wigman

Photograph by Dolf Verlinden Menno Wigman combines an almost classical aesthetic with contemporary sensibilities and rock-and-roll subject matter. Dense, metrical poetry about sex and vandalism, death and suburban garden centres. An essentially colloquial vocabulary raised to a higher level by …

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