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Tom Van de Voorde

[We vouwen oud geld en laten]

  • 1 [Mijn postbode vraagt me wat] | Translations: deenesfrhrmkskslsv
  • 2 [We vouwen oud geld en laten] | Translations: enfritmksv
  • 3 Onnatuurlijke vijanden | Translations: deenfritmksv
  • 4 Een droom in de bergen | Translations: dees
  • 5 Ons | Translations: de
  • 6 Mijn bitterheid haar droom | Translations: desv
  • 7 We always began it again | Translations: de
  • 8 De vooravond van een verandering | Translations: de
  • 9 Les barricades mystérieuses | Translations: de
  • 10 Vragen aan Shiva | Translations: deenesfrhritmkskslsv
  • 11 [Intussen in de jungle] | Translations: deenfrhritmkskslsv
  • 12 De vreemdelingenpicknick | Translations: enfrhritmksl
Language: dutch
Translations: english ([We fold old money and leave]), french ([Nous plions de vieux billets, laissons]), italian ([Pieghiamo vecchio denaro e facciamo]), macedonian ([Превиткуваме стари пари и ги оставаме]), swedish ([Vi viker gamla sedlar och låter])
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[We vouwen oud geld en laten]

We vouwen oud geld en laten
de doden betalen, bevestigen

doeken, drogen tapijten
en graven naar zand.

Hoeveel kleur verbeurt ons
wonen, tot vervulling

van een stuurloze zee.
Honden veinzen slogans

en tellen plooien
voor ongeschikte slachtoffers.

Hier staan we dan,
in berken vrede wit

iets anders dan latent
benullig op het strand.

© Tom Van de Voorde
From: Liefde en aarde
Gent: poëziecentrum, 2013
Audio production: Haus für Poesie, 2019

Translations:

Language: english

[We fold old money and leave]

We fold old money and leave 
the dead to pay, secure

blankets, dry out tapestries
and dig for sand.

How many colours forfeit our
homes, till the fulfilment

of a rudderless sea.
Dogs feign slogans

and count the folds
for unsuitable victims.

Yet here we stand,
in birches peaceful white

something other than latent
clueless in the sand.

Translation: Astrid Alben
www.astridalben.com
Language: french

[Nous plions de vieux billets, laissons]

Nous plions de vieux billets, laissons
les morts payer, fixons

des tableaux, séchons des tapis
et creusons pour trouver du sable.

Quelle quantité de couleur perd
notre habitation en vue

d’accomplir une mer à la dérive ?
Des chiens simulent des slogans

et comptent les plis
pour d’inaptes victimes mal rangées.

Nous voici, en paix
blanc de bouleau

autre chose que le sérieux
en manque sur la plage.

Traduit par Daniel Cunin
Language: italian

[Pieghiamo vecchio denaro e facciamo]

Pieghiamo vecchio denaro e facciamo
pagare i morti, attacchiamo

tele, asciughiamo tappeti
e scaviamo in cerca di sabbia.

Quanto colore perde
il nostro abitare, a compimento

di un mare alla deriva.
Cani fingono slogan

e contano pieghe
per vittime inadatte.

Eccoci qui,
in betulle pace bianco

qualcosa di diverso dalla coscienza
latente sulla spiaggia.

Traduttore: Pierluigi Lanfranchi
Language: macedonian

[Превиткуваме стари пари и ги оставаме]

Превиткуваме стари пари и ги оставаме
мртвите да платат, наоѓаме

ќебиња, сушиме таписерии
и трагаме по песок.

Колку бои го напуштаат
нашиот дом, се до исполнението на

едно море без кормило.
Кучиња лажираат слогани

и ги бројат шевовите
на неподобните жртви.

Сепак, стоиме тука,
сред мирно бели брези

некако поинакви од скриените
неупатени сред песокот.

Translation: Gorjan Kostovski
Language: swedish

[Vi viker gamla sedlar och låter]

Vi viker gamla sedlar och låter
de döda betala, fäster upp

dukar, torkar mattor
och gräver efter sand.

Hur mycket färg förbrukar vårt
boende, nog att fylla

ett otämjbart hav.
Hundar mimar slagord

och räknar veck
för odugliga offer.

Här står vi så,
i björkar frid vitt

allt annat än latent
vettiga på stranden.

Översättning: Per Holmer
från: Kärlek och jord (Malmö, Ramus forlag, 2013)
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Tom Van de Voorde

photo © Dirk Skiba
* 10.04.1974, Ghent, Belgium
lives in: Ghent, Belgium

Tom Van de Voorde is a writer, curator of interdisciplinary projects and translator of poetry into Dutch. In 2008, he published his first book of poetry, a collection of "contemporary landscape" pieces. The book was nominated for the C. Buddingh Prize for best poetry debut during the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam, 2009. In 2013 he published his second collection of poems, isolating microscopic stills of political and economic issues. The collection was nominated for the Herman De Coninck prize for the best poetry collection, 2013 and awarded the tri-annual poetry prize of East Flanders. Selections of this collection have been translated into ten languages. In 2016, a full length book translation was published in Sweden by Ramus Forlag. In 2017 he published his third collection.

 photo © Dirk Skiba
Tom Van de Voorde has been invited to take part in international poetry festivals in Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Nicaragua, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, The Netherlands. Since 2013 he has been one of the poet laureates at the Versopolis project, a European platform for emerging poets supported by the creative industry program of the European Union.
As a translator of poetry into Dutch he worked on American poets such as Wallace Stevens, Michael Palmer and Ariana Reines. Together with his partner Staša Pavlović he translated the poetry of the Slovenian poets Katja Perat and Tomaž Šalamun.

From 2005 to 2010, Tom Van de Voorde was the Belgian editor of the international poetry websites Lyrikline.org and Poetry International Web.
In 2010, he was appointed curator for literature programs at the Centre of Fine Arts BOZAR in Brussels, where he has developed an interdisciplinary series wherein writers dialogue with music and fine arts.

Publications
  • Vliesgevels filter

    Gent: poëziecentrum, 2008

  • Liefde en aarde

    Gent: poëziecentrum, 2013

  • Zwembad de verbeelding

    Gent: poëziecentrum, 2017

  • Jouw zwaartekracht mijn veer

    Amsterdam, Querido, 2020,

Awards
  • 2017 Poesiepreis von Ostflandern

Links
  • Tom Van de Voorde @ Versopolis

    Website

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