biography poetry contact   Diatribe or devotions, 2004   BIOGRAPHY Simon Vinkenoog was born on that sunny 18th July 1928 in Amsterdam and has been publishing poetry, prose, essays and reviews for well over 50 years. In 1951 he was the editor of renowned anthology Atonaal (Atonal; The Hague: A.A.M. Stols), which launched the 'Fifties Movement' (Beweging van Vijftig). Simon Vinkenoog © Henk Veenstra, 2000 In 1966 he was the driving force behind Poetry in Carré (Poëzie in Carré, an Amsterdam theatre), attended by some 2000 people and, remarkably, organized within a month's time. His poetry has made it into scores of volumes, hundreds of anthologies and thousands of magazines. Since 1998 he has had a new publisher for his poetry, Passage in Groningen. It launched Vreugdevuur (Bonfire; poems and drawings) in 1998 and on 10th September 2000 De ware Adam, gedichten rond de eeuwwisseling (The True Adam, poems on the eve of a new century), edited by Coen de Jonge. In January 2004 Vinkenoog published Goede raad is vuur ( Burning with good advice ), in which he communicates his passion for poetry. Please browse www.google.com for more information about Simon Vinkenoog. top of page (-) Diatribe or devotions, love poems or protest songs: as long as they're shared, sprout wings and then set free. Once feeling grave changes into                                                 being brave, then all you gave                                          becomes a living wave: 'Everything that moves will keep moving on top and or below there's nowhere else to go nothing takes root and it's all disappearing your life fireworks or not' © Simon Vinkenoog, 2004 © translation: Willem Groenewegen, 2004 top of page CONTACT INTERNATIONAL BOOKINGS Dutch Literary Productions and Translations Foundation Mr Bas Pauw: b.pauw@nlpvf.nl Singel 464 1017 AW  Amsterdam tel.: +31 20.620.62.61 fax: +31 20.620.71.79 PUBLISHER Uitgeverij Passage Postbus 216 9700 AE  Groningen tel.: +31 50-527.13.32 e-mail: passuit@xs4all.nl site: http://www.uitgeverijpassage.nl/   top of page This page is part of the daily poetry newspaper: Rottend Staal Online

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