Poets

Jan Baeke ( Roosendaal , May 23, 1956 ) is a Dutch poet .
Jan Baeke debuted in 1997 with The Bezige Bij with the bundle Never without the horses . Ten years before, he published poems in the magazines Tirade and De Zingende Saag . His fourth bundle, Greater than the facts , was nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize 2008.
Jan Baeke's poetry takes his own place in the Netherlands. It is poetry that can call a mystery in plain language and with direct images. Influences are from filmmakers ( Luis Buñuel , Michael Haneke and Andrej Tarkovsky ) and poets ( Ingeborg Bachmann , Jaan Kaplinski and János Pilinszky ).
Besides poet Jan Baeke is translator of Lavinia Greenlaw, Liz Lochhead and Deryn Rees-Jones. He worked at the Dutch Film Museum in Amsterdam. Since 2009 he is connected to Poetry International .