Marc Kooij was RIXT-poet of the month July 2018.
You can read the original Frisian poems of that month here. One of them – Football and the sun – is published here in translation.
Football and the sun
it’s football and the sun
two competitors which you
cannot foresee beforehand
it’s not the story
there is not one word of Greek in it
let alone any Frisian
it’s not the style
premiere at the square
the image will linger in your minds
we have the world
and ten years time
it ‘s not us
© Marc Kooij Translation: Trevor M. Scarse