Pier Boorsma was the RIXT poet of the month in December. You can read his original Frisian poems from that month here. The translation of one of his poems – ‘Josse’ – is published here.
Josse his father sold – if it suited him – paraffin and when that did not happen he had to go to college without food the girls in his class sniggered at his mismatched socks he fancied one of them but did not dare to ask her who did he think he was as son of the paraffin vendor later on, he would write a novel about the stuffiness of his village as a writer he finally mattered © Pier Boorsma translation: Trevor Scarse