Tsead Bruinja

[golfplaten daken mosdaken...]

Language: dutch

Translations: german ([Wellblechdächer Moosdächer mit bleichender Wäsche...]), english ([corrugated roofs mossy roofs...])

[golfplaten daken mosdaken...]

golfplaten daken mosdaken met blekende was lakens en natte knijpers die dansen in wind een mensenhand of hoofd nergens te bespeuren maar wel roestvrij stalen schoorsteenpijpen oranjerode pannen met van boven naar beneden iets zwarts achtergelaten regen open deuren dichte gordijnen de schone was hangt buiten en takken groeien graaiend naar waar ze kunnen ontwrichten stenen muren daarbinnen hij denkend aan zwembaden badpakken gluren en na de koffie drinken zwembaden spieken over de randen van aankleedhokjes gettoblasters klonken als betonnen vierbaanswegen onderdoor reden jongensstemmen hij kan het horen maar zij trekt aan wat hij bewaart achter zijn tralietanden en laat zijn lamme tong weer lopen terug naar het dorp waar hij woelnachtenlang dorstig wakker ligt mes in de buik van een hongerige god

Tsead Bruinja

photo © Ronald Hoeben

* 17.07.1974, Rinsumageest, Netherlands
lives in: , Netherlands

Tsead Bruinja (1974, Rinsumageest / The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

He writes poetry, reviews of poetry and has organized several literary events such as the open-air poetry festival Dichters in de Prinsentuin (Poets in the Prince's garden). He writes in Dutch and Frisian and has published his work in a number of literary magazines. For a period of two years he was a member of the editorial board of the Frisian magazine Hjir.

photo © Ronald Hoeben

His Frisian debut De wizers yn it read / The meters in the red (Bornmeer) was published in 2000. In 2001 his second collection of Frisian poetry De man dy't rinne moat / The man who has to walk appeared in print, followed in 2003 by the collection Gegrommel fan satyn / Mutterings in satin. Dutch poems were published a number of anthologies, one of them is Vanuit de lucht / Out of the air (Passage, 2001), an anthology of work by the youngest generation of poets writing in Dutch.

Together with the editor of this anthology, Daniël Dee, Bruinja has compiled two anthologies on the male and female genitalia, entitled Kutgedichten (Passage, 2004) en Klotengedichten (Passage, 2005). The titles of his collections of Dutch poetry are Dat het zo hoorde/The way it should be (Contact, 2003) and Batterij/Battery (Contact, 2004).

October 2004 witnessed the presentation of a bilingual miscellany that he compiled in conjunction with Hein Jaap Hilarides: Droom in blauwe regenjas / Dream yn blauwe reinjas - Nieuwe Friese dichters / Nije Fryske dichters - Dream in a Blue Raincoat / New Frisian Poets. A special website with Frisian poetry in English translation as well as information on Frisian literature and short movieclips featuring these Frisian poets can be enjoyed at: www.droominblauweregenjas.info.

More English information and some translations of Bruinja's Frisian poetry can be read at Poetry International Web. Tsead Bruinja has read his work to audiences in The Blue Room (UK; Newcastle), De Brauhauskeller (Germany; Bremen), Forum des Langues du monde (France; Toulouse) and De Wintertuin (The Netherlands; Arnhem/Nijmegen). He also performs his poetry with musical accompaniment by hip-hop or flamenco musicians.

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