Tom Van De Voorde

/Belgium
Tom Van De Voorde

Tom van de Voorde was born in 1974 in Ghent, Belgium. In 2008 he published his first collection of poetry with contemporary landscape poems. The book was nominated for the C. Buddingh-prize for the best poetry debute. In his essays he writes about California, Arcadia, eternal youth, Madonna, folk music and American communists. In recent years he has been translating the poetry of American poets. Until recently he was the Belgian editor of Lyrikline.org.

Poems


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Picnic for strangers / De vreemdelingenpicknick


/ Ook fietsende moordenaars


/ Vragen aan neda


Asking shiva / Vragen aan shiva