Paul Bogaert
Author

Poems

ZONDER HANDEN dutch

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WELCOME HYGIENE dutch

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ZIJN REGELS dutch

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CIRCULAIRE SYSTEMEN – NR. 7 dutch

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CIRCULAIRE SYSTEMEN – NR. 9 dutch

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CIRCULAIRE SYSTEMEN – NR. 13 dutch

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Handelend naar de letter dutch

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Vandaar die lichtinval (fragment) dutch

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[- Ik hoor dat je gestabiliseerd bent] dutch

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‘IEDEREEN KAN HET’ dutch

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IS DAT WEL IETS dutch

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[Al wie opgewekt is] dutch

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[Met de ingenieuze] dutch

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[Wacht maar tot je godin Aurore] dutch

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[Ik dacht dat de tijd via via zou werken] dutch

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Paul Bogaert
Author

About

* 03.05.1968, Brussels, Belgium
lives in: Leuven, Belgium

Paul Bogaert’s debut collection of poems, WELCOME HYGIENE, was published in 1996. It features verses full of bizarre logic and a carefully measured mixture of styles and linguistic registers. His restless first person narrator is plagued with over-awareness; the way he analyses himself and others creates an alienating effect.

The same rousing mental and physical sensations surface in his second volume Circulaire systemen (Circular systems, 2002). In this collection Bogaert examines his fascination for all things that rotate. A closed, circular system generates security, but also discomfort. In an aloof, pseudo-scientific tone he creates poetic language machines, in which the ordinary is contrasted with the systematic.

In 2006, his third collection of poems, AUB (PLEASE), was published. In 2008 Paul Bogaert wrote the National Poetry Day essay Verwondingen (Injuries), in which he tries to explain the secrets of poetry by analysing the Serbian contribution (2007) to the Eurovision Song Contest.

de Slalom soft (the Slalom soft, 2009) is a long, sparkling, narrative poem, featuring a lifeguard in a subtropical swimming paradise, personal coaches, drowned bodies and office workers.

In just a few years and with only four collections of poems, Bogaert has proved himself one of the most striking voices among young Flemish poets.” (Tom Van de Voorde)