I'm en route to the Zaoem Polypoetry Festival in Ghent, Belgium (April 25-26), where I'll join poets from Belgium, the Netherlands, and other foreign locales. Festival cohorts include Eduard Escoffet, Rozalie Hirs, Mark Insingel, Leevi Lehto, Tonnus Oosterhoff, Maggie O'Sullivan, Vrouwkje Tuinman, Peter Verhelst, and Stijn Vranken. Zoom zoom zaoem!!
Zaoem poster photo courtesy Helen White, one of the excellent festival organizers.
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Hi!
Or salut! perhaps - since we met in Paris.
It was very nice talking to you, though briefly. It's a good thing that my boyfriend Ingemar is so much better than I at making contact with strangers. I myself, is much to shy - reserved and boring - more of a watcher than an intervener. At least when it comes to those breif encounters.
I don't know if I managed to make that clear, but litterature is accually one of my biggest interest in life (I've studdied litterature - and journalism - for several years at the Stockholm Uni), and I have been writing fiction more or less from the age of ten.
I have still to be published... But I'm naiv enough to be certain that it's just a matter of time before that happens.
I have to admit I mainly prefer prose to poetry. But the title of your book undeniably have an exciting ring to it. I love insects - the cheer creepiness of them, if you know what I mean. Many of my favourit novels happen to have insects in the title, and my own blog - here on blogspot - is also called "kvalster", which is the swedish world for those invisibly small spiderlike thingys crawling around in your matress.
So it's not unlikely that I will try to get my hands on a copy of the "Wide slumber..."
Anywho...
Good luck with the festival and all!
Mostly I just wanted to say hi!
Vänliga hälsningar,
from the girl at Chez Marie
You were fantastic in Ghent.
Both my wife and I loved your performance very much.
I forgot to ask you for your poetry album.
Bit sad that there was no more time to talk.
Hope to meet you soon.
Philip.
www.myspace.com/spooninmybrain
Thank you for your kind words, Philip! It was a pleasure to meet you, too. If you're looking for my poetry book, I would be happy to trade for something of yours (a CD? a book?). Let me know on Facebook.
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