Searching for the soul of the city
CityPoem 29 - Nijmegen
By Hans Karssenberg
21-01-2007 /views: 923 in past 12 months.
A poem on the wall of Nijmegen, a city in the East of The Netherlands, title of a well known Dutch book with 365 poems for children.
Photo: Thomieh
Nijmegen CityPoem: The Discovery, K. Schippers
If you look around you
Closely
You will see that all things
Are coloured
Original text in Dutch:
De Ontdekking
Als je goed om
je heen kijkt
zie je dat alles
gekleurd is
Closely
You will see that all things
Are coloured
About the author
K. Schippers (Amsterdam, 1936) is a Dutch poet and writer. K. Schippers is a pseudonym of Gerard Stigter.
Together with Gerard Bron, Henk Marsman and Frits Jacobsen, he founded the magazine Barbarber in 1958. In 1975, he became editor of the magazine Hollands Diep. K. Schippers introduced the ready-made as a form of poetry.
He is perhaps more a watcher rather than a storyteller. His writing is never about the story, but about what you see.
Next to his literary work, he is editor and art critic, and also writers advertisement texts.
Original text in Dutch:
De Ontdekking
Als je goed om
je heen kijkt
zie je dat alles
gekleurd is
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