This autumn, several writing courses will commence at Tresoar and we are very happy that among them is the first poetry course organized by Poet Pack RIXT!

The poetry course is set up due to the demand and wished at the Poet Pack RIXT and will reflect the diversity of poetry.  For this reason, not one course person will lead the course, but five. These are Kate Schlingemann, Edwin de Groot, Dien L. de Boer, Geart Tigchelaar and Tryntsje van der Veer.

These five skilful RIXT poets will discuss several topics, such as poetic elements, metaphors, clichés, visual poetry and presentation.

The course will be held in collaboration with Tresoar from the end of September until the end of November.  Due to the Covid-19 precautions  there has been set a maximum number of participants, and for this reason, the available places are completely taken by RIXT-poets.

There will be other courses at Tresoar as well during the autumn 2020.

The relay poem ‘De bui’ is completed!  During the week at the Skriuwersarke of late Rink van der Velde at De Feanhoop, RIXT poets have worked together in pairs on the shared poem, which started with the line of Rink,  ‘Rigel fan Rink’:

‘De mar nimt de bui net’

‘The lake doesn’t take the storm’

An English translation will be published on this site in due time.

The poets who worked on the poem are:

Cornelis van der Wal

Janneke Spoelstra and Rein de Lange

Kate Schlingemann and Edwin de Groot

Anne Heegstra and Simen de Jong

Carla van der Zwaag and Tialda Hoogeveen

Ypie Bakker and Tsjisse Hettema

Syds Wiersma and Dirk Geerdink

Yva Hokwerda and Jan Kooistra

We want to thank all poets for their enthusiasm, collaboration and creativity! It has been a lovely week on the Ark with an excellent and poetic result! 

 

During the week, Geart Tigchelaar was host and photographer.
All pictures below are taken by him.

To make the ‘Rigel fan Rink’ possible, we want to thank:

Stifting FLMD and  it Fryske Gea to make the Ark available and ready for RIXT;

Omrop Fryslân for the daily telephone with the poets;

Poiesz Boarnburgum for the provision of food and drinks;

Pub Marktzicht, Ronald, for the warm welcome and enjoyable final evening in Drachten.

Pictures cannot be used without permission of the photographer Geart Tigchelaar.

The Poet of the Month August is Cornelis van der Wal.
You can read the Frisian poems on RIXT and an English translation of one poem will be published here.

From the 1st to till the 7th of august, the Poet Pack RIXT will stay on the Skriuwersarke, the Writer’s Ark, of late author Rink van der Velde. The 50 poets won’t all come at once, but every day a different pair of poets will visit to work on a stanza which will form a poem in these seven days.

As all activities have been low-key because of the corona crisis, the pack wants to slowly meet again in the right circumstances. And what’s a better place for this as the Ark, or a better activity to work together on a collective poem.

In August,  Cornelis van der Wal is the Dichter fan de moanne, the Poet of the Month. He will write the first stanza, upon which the group will build from Saturday onwards. De ‘Rigel fan Rink‘/ the ‘Line of Rink’ which Van der Wall with start with is:

‘De mar nimt de bui net.’

‘The lake doesn’t take the storm’

This line is from the novel De nacht fan Belse madam/ The night of madam Belse (1991) and gives direction and tone to the poem as well as the week.

The growth of the poem can be followed from home, as Omrop Fryslân will call with the poets on the Ark every day. This will be at 15:40 h. during the week and at 17:40 h. in the weekend.

To conclude the week, the poem will be read in full in the former hangout of Van der Velde, pub Marktzicht in Drachten, on the evening of the 8th of August.

The Skriuwersarke of Rink van der Velde, who passed away in 2001, is held by It Fryske Gea and Stifting FLMD. The Poet Pack will be provided with drinks and food by the Poiesz Boarnburgum.

What: Rigel fan Rink/Line of Rink,
Poet Pack RIXT at the Skriuwersarke/ Writer’s Ark
Where: De Skriuwersarke, De Feanhoop
When : 1-7 August at the Ark.

• Friday 31 July at 15:40 h. on the radio programme De Middei fan Fryslân.
• 1-2 August at 17:40 h. on the radio programmes Sneon fan Fryslân and Snein fan Fryslân.
• 3-7 August at 15:40 h. on the radio programme De Middei fan Fryslân.
• 8 August, in the evening the final gathering at pub Marktzicht, Aldewei 14, 9203 AG Drachten

Entry:  All visits to the Ark are by appointment because of the corona regulations. Also be aware that Marktzicht will have limited place for the same reasons.
Please contact RIXT for questions or to visit the Ark .