Paul Bogaert

ZIJN REGELS

Language: dutch

Translations: french (SES RÈGLES), german (SEINE REGELN)

ZIJN REGELS

Is hij ziek, dat hij zo bleek ziet?
Het zetelvulsel blijft, het voedsel
in zijn voorhoofd blijft.
Achter het ijzergaas loopt er een kip,

een dikke. Verder, binnen, dat is
een printer en ook de bomen zijn te horen.
Regelmatig slikt het in zijn oren, hij
denkt: het sap in de bladeren is

niet gazeuse, lauw en hij draait
- zijn keel is diep - de ramen open
van de limousine. Wat is dit voor een duizeling?

Maar hij heeft zijn handen en de tuinstoel
is verstelbaar.

Paul Bogaert

photo © Tineke de Lange

* 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.

photo © Tineke de Lange

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)

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