Hagar Peeters is one the most celebrated poets in the Netherlands. She started as a performer in youth clubs, an…
The Dutch Riveter
Sometimes you’ve read so many learned texts that all that learning gets jammed in your head like a cupboard in…
TIDELINES The sea begins somewhere else each day. I head for the surf in a straight line. The waves of…
Seventy-five years ago, on a cold winter’s day – 27 January, 1945 – in Poland, the Dutch doctor and trainee…
Although I was twenty, my family still saw me as a child. Since Clara and I were so much younger…
The title of this piece refers to a passage in the most famous wartime diary ever published: that of the…