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The Poetry of Jeroen Mettes (2012)

By Samuel Vriezen and Steve Pearce Abstract continent. 2.1 (2012): 22–28. Jeroen Mettes burst onto the Dutch poetry scene twice. First, in 2005, when he became a strong presence on the nascent Dutch poetry blogosphere overnight as he embarked on his critical project Dichtersalfabet (Poet’s Alphabet). And again in 2011, when to great critical acclaim

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Sharing Multiplicity 2012

for Toine Horvers Sound is at heart full of difference. There is no such thing as a static sound. Even the simplest timbre, a single sine wave without overtones, comes about through differences: the push and pull of air molecules as the soundwave travels through space. More complex sounds are dynamic timbres consisting of many

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Globalization in literature (2009)

In recent years, the effect of the internet on Dutch poetry has been tremendous. I believe this neither to be primarily a question of the invention of new genres (such as interactive poetry or Flash-animated poetry), nor just a question of different forms of distribution of poetry and poetical discourse and the different organization of

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