Versindaba Blog Archive Stefaan Goossens. The Fifth Night of Poetry
Whew ... It is over. After months of preparation, many phones and e-mails back and forth, an ever ripple program and increasing media and poet fever was on April 2 finally arrived: the Fifth Night of Poetry opened in Vooruit at 20h00 and she closed yearbook avenue nearly 10 hours later. The curator of this Fifth Night was Michael Vandebril. This edition took place in an organization of Flemish-Dutch House deBuren, Knack and Poetry Center. yearbook avenue In total, 175 artists performed during the night in the spotlight. yearbook avenue Musicians and other disorderly, but and above all, the poets! As many as 50 poets made their appearance ... or just about. Peter Holvoet-Hanssen had by heart disease absent. As Remco Campert whose physical yearbook avenue constitution eventually allowed him not to be there. Leonard yearbook avenue Nolens had left the spirit a little early out of the bottle and was also absent.
Shame about the absentees, but the poets who were there gave the best of themselves. The evening was opened by one of the oldest still active writing poets from Flanders, Adriaan de Roover (88 years). yearbook avenue In the hours that followed a plethora of diverse yearbook avenue styles and genres. Some gave an almost diabolical performance (eg. Johan Joos and ACG Vianen), others such as Dirk van Bastelaere and Lies van Gasse sought in the cross-over between language and image. Others had their - big - like himself Deelder, Ramsey Nasr and Stefan Hertmans. For those who were not there, via this link view a video montage that was made by Jess De Gruyter, poet and filmmaker:
The Fifth Night of Poetry is of course not just fall from the sky. Just the ordinal number indicates that there are already four editions have passed the revue. The first night was organized in 1973, the second in 1975, third in 1980 and fourth in 1984. If the essence of the Night will fathom needs much further back, however. yearbook avenue To Brussels and Amsterdam in 1966, but actually even a year earlier, in 1965. When found in London the mass poetry event the International Poetry Incarnation place. On the podium when greats like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Michael Horovitz (who was also on the Fifth Night at!) And ... Vinkenoog. The demonstration was attended by thousands of people and the director Peter Whitehead are made about the documentary Wholly Communion. On the website of the Poetry Center brought together a number of fragments of this legendary yearbook avenue event. At the very beginning of the documentary you see Vinkenoog on stage.
Vinkenoog yearbook avenue was totally blown away by this happening and wanted to organize something similar in Amsterdam. He collected twenty-five poets including Flemings Gust Gils and Hugues C. Pernath and left them on February 28, 1966 release on the large audience in concert Carre. A few months later he did that feat even mentioned in the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels during Poetry in the Palace (28 September 1966). Among the thousands of people present yearbook avenue in Brussels was the then thirty-year-old Guido Lauwaert. Full of swagger and bravado, yearbook avenue and with a big heart for poetry. And it was no doubt which led youthful exuberance and sense of organized chaos that brought him to hold on February yearbook avenue 17, 1973 its first Night of Poetry in Forest National (Brussels). Thousands of visitors came to the promised spectacle, scandals were rampant and in the midst of all that chaos uttered dozens of poets voting "from yearbook avenue eight o'clock in the evening jusqu'à l'Aube". A myth was born.
The first Night of Poetry was for the commencement of a cult status. The event would take place in Forest National, a large concert hall with a capacity of seven thousand places where usually yearbook avenue major pop concerts and boxing matches yearbook avenue were organized. In the seventies the raging yearbook avenue language dispute between Flemish and French speakers in Brussels abundance. It's that community strife that first night it would help his legendary character. The mayor of Prince was rabidly French and although the municipal organization of the Night was initially approved, the mayor decided yearbook avenue a week before the event, that public order would be jeopardized and he left prohibit the event. It would eventually yearbook avenue ask interpellation in parliament and a suspension order from the governor to let the night go on. While the state police stood ready in the surrounding streets, was the Mother of All Nights with a shot from the gun of poet Marcel van Maele starts. The event itself was an incredible chaos: yearbook avenue there was a bomb threat, the sound system functioned n
Whew ... It is over. After months of preparation, many phones and e-mails back and forth, an ever ripple program and increasing media and poet fever was on April 2 finally arrived: the Fifth Night of Poetry opened in Vooruit at 20h00 and she closed yearbook avenue nearly 10 hours later. The curator of this Fifth Night was Michael Vandebril. This edition took place in an organization of Flemish-Dutch House deBuren, Knack and Poetry Center. yearbook avenue In total, 175 artists performed during the night in the spotlight. yearbook avenue Musicians and other disorderly, but and above all, the poets! As many as 50 poets made their appearance ... or just about. Peter Holvoet-Hanssen had by heart disease absent. As Remco Campert whose physical yearbook avenue constitution eventually allowed him not to be there. Leonard yearbook avenue Nolens had left the spirit a little early out of the bottle and was also absent.
Shame about the absentees, but the poets who were there gave the best of themselves. The evening was opened by one of the oldest still active writing poets from Flanders, Adriaan de Roover (88 years). yearbook avenue In the hours that followed a plethora of diverse yearbook avenue styles and genres. Some gave an almost diabolical performance (eg. Johan Joos and ACG Vianen), others such as Dirk van Bastelaere and Lies van Gasse sought in the cross-over between language and image. Others had their - big - like himself Deelder, Ramsey Nasr and Stefan Hertmans. For those who were not there, via this link view a video montage that was made by Jess De Gruyter, poet and filmmaker:
The Fifth Night of Poetry is of course not just fall from the sky. Just the ordinal number indicates that there are already four editions have passed the revue. The first night was organized in 1973, the second in 1975, third in 1980 and fourth in 1984. If the essence of the Night will fathom needs much further back, however. yearbook avenue To Brussels and Amsterdam in 1966, but actually even a year earlier, in 1965. When found in London the mass poetry event the International Poetry Incarnation place. On the podium when greats like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Michael Horovitz (who was also on the Fifth Night at!) And ... Vinkenoog. The demonstration was attended by thousands of people and the director Peter Whitehead are made about the documentary Wholly Communion. On the website of the Poetry Center brought together a number of fragments of this legendary yearbook avenue event. At the very beginning of the documentary you see Vinkenoog on stage.
Vinkenoog yearbook avenue was totally blown away by this happening and wanted to organize something similar in Amsterdam. He collected twenty-five poets including Flemings Gust Gils and Hugues C. Pernath and left them on February 28, 1966 release on the large audience in concert Carre. A few months later he did that feat even mentioned in the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels during Poetry in the Palace (28 September 1966). Among the thousands of people present yearbook avenue in Brussels was the then thirty-year-old Guido Lauwaert. Full of swagger and bravado, yearbook avenue and with a big heart for poetry. And it was no doubt which led youthful exuberance and sense of organized chaos that brought him to hold on February yearbook avenue 17, 1973 its first Night of Poetry in Forest National (Brussels). Thousands of visitors came to the promised spectacle, scandals were rampant and in the midst of all that chaos uttered dozens of poets voting "from yearbook avenue eight o'clock in the evening jusqu'à l'Aube". A myth was born.
The first Night of Poetry was for the commencement of a cult status. The event would take place in Forest National, a large concert hall with a capacity of seven thousand places where usually yearbook avenue major pop concerts and boxing matches yearbook avenue were organized. In the seventies the raging yearbook avenue language dispute between Flemish and French speakers in Brussels abundance. It's that community strife that first night it would help his legendary character. The mayor of Prince was rabidly French and although the municipal organization of the Night was initially approved, the mayor decided yearbook avenue a week before the event, that public order would be jeopardized and he left prohibit the event. It would eventually yearbook avenue ask interpellation in parliament and a suspension order from the governor to let the night go on. While the state police stood ready in the surrounding streets, was the Mother of All Nights with a shot from the gun of poet Marcel van Maele starts. The event itself was an incredible chaos: yearbook avenue there was a bomb threat, the sound system functioned n
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