Poet
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Henrik Nordbrandt 1945 country: Netherlands Deens |
(1945) is geboren in Kopenhagen. De plaats die Nordbrandt in de Deense literatuur inneemt is uniek. Sinds jaar en dag verblijft hij hoofdzakelijk buitenslands; zo woonde hij lang in Turkije, Griekenland en Italië. Heel zijn poëzie is doordrenkt van de landschappen, steden en klimaten van de Middellandse Zee, verzadigd van hun kleuren, hun licht en donker. Hij zingt, sleept mee en overrompelt, met een feilloos gevoel voor de broze schoonheid van het vergankelijke, het vervallende, dat wat – als de liefde, als de droom – even, bijna niet, niet meer bestaat.
Digte (1966); Miniaturer (1967); Syvsoverne (1969); Omgivelser (1972); Opbrud og ankomster (1974); Ode til blæksprutten og andre kærlighedsdigte (1975); Glas (1976); Istid (1977); Guds hus (1977); Breve fra en ottoman (1978); Rosen fra Lesbos (1979); Spogelselege (1979); Forsvar for vinden under doren (1980); Armenia (1982); 84 digte (1984); Armenia (1984); Violinbyggernes by (1985); Håndens skælven i november (1986); Vandspejlet (1989); Glemmesteder (1991); Stovets tyngde (1992); Ormene ved himlens port (1995); Egne digte (2000). born in Copenhagen, Henrik Nordbrandt’s place in Danish literature is a unique one. He has spent most of his time abroad, living alternately in Turkey, Greece and Italy. His poetry is imbued with the towns, landscapes and climates of the Mediterranean region, saturated with its colours, lights and shades. He sings, he moves, he takes the reader by surprise, with an unerring feeling for the fragile beauty of transitory things, things that – like love, like a dream – are gone the moment we realize they exist. Nordbrandt published his first collection, Poems, in 1966, when he was twenty-one. Since the 1970s he has been the leading poet of his generation, even though he never joined the then prevailing trend of writing easily accessible and socially engaged verse. Apart from poems, he has written a novel, a children’s book and a Turkish cookery book. He has translated Turkish poetry. This year he received the Nordic Council’s prestigious literature prize for his twenty-first collection, Dream Bridges. In his poetry, inspired and fed by his countless travels, Nordbrandt has created a new metaphysics of the void. In unusual metaphors, in decadent, even ‘gothic’, images, in endlessly meandering sentences, he conjures up a world where loss and fulfilment occur simultaneously. Presence, arrival and possession cannot erase absence, departure and loss. Wherever he goes, man is on the move without knowing where to. Nor is there any certainty in love, which features prominently in this poetry. Man – the poet – can get no closer to himself than he can get to nature, the landscape: rooted deeper in its own being than he, it will invariably throw him back upon himself. ‘And in whatever rivers we mirror ourselves / we cannot see our reflection until we’ve turned our backs.’ Poets: |
