Readers of this blog will know that I make a list at the end of each year showing the most … More
Tag: Rutger Kopland
Lifesaving Poems: Tonnus Oosterhoff’s ‘Middle Ages’
Middle Ages (Translated by Paul Vincent) Folk from the past jostled for a place in the wall with distant … More
Lifesaving Poems: Rutger Kopland’s ‘I Cavalli di Leonardo’
I was sad to read yesterday via Twitter that the leading Dutch poet Rutger Kopland has died, aged 77. He … More
Lifesaving Poems
I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More