Wall poems in Leiden

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A wall poem in Russian by Alexander Blok

Wall Poems (

poems in many different languages were painted on the exterior walls of buildings in the city of Leiden, The Netherlands.[1][2][3]

History and description

The Wall Poems project was partly funded by the private Tegen-Beeld foundation of Ben Walenkamp and

Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies; it and many of the other poems are accompanied by plaques with translations into Dutch and English.[2]

Guides

A guide available on the web describes a walking tour for visitors to Leiden that takes in 25 of the 101 poems.[6] The first 43 poems have been collected in a book by Marleen van der Weij, Dicht op de muur: gedichten in Leiden, and the rest are described in a second volume, published in 2005.[7]

Gallery

Influence

The poem Le bateau ivre on a wall in Paris

Based on the success of the Leiden poetry project, wall poems have also been painted in several other Dutch cities.[8][9] In 2004 the Dutch embassy to Bulgaria launched a similar project in Sofia,[10] and in 2012 the Tegen-Beeld foundation collaborated with the International Society of Friends of Rimbaud to paint a poem by Arthur Rimbaud, "Le Bateau ivre", on a government building in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.[11] In 2012 a poem by Marsman was painted on a wall in Berlin.

Publications

  • Marleen van der Weij: Dicht op de muur. Gedichten in Leiden. Gemeente Leiden, Dienst Bouwen en Wonen, 1996.
    ISBN 9075089082
    [Description of the first 43 poems].
  • Marleen van der Weij: Dicht op de muur 2. Gedichten in Leiden. Burgersdijk & Niermans, Leiden, 2005.
    ISBN 9075089112
    [Description of the poems 44-101]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9781559634533, archived
    from the original on 2014-01-01, retrieved 2019-01-14.
  2. ^
    Jakarta Post, archived from the original
    on March 4, 2016.
  3. ^
    ISBN 9780471718451
    .
  4. ^ a b c The Wall Poems of Leiden, archived from the original on 2012-07-03, retrieved 2012-06-04.
  5. ISBN 9780549627180
    .
  6. ^ Wandeling langs de Muurgedichten van Leiden (in Dutch), archived from the original on 2012-01-25, retrieved 2012-06-04.
  7. ^ Dienst Bouwen en Wonen, Leiden, 1996, reprinted 2000 and 2005 by Burgersdijk & Niermans, Leiden; see worldcat. A second volume, published in 2005, (Dicht op de muur 2) describes the poems 44-101.
  8. ^ "Gedichten op murenroute Veenendaal van start", VeenendalseKrant (in Dutch), December 14, 2009.
  9. ^ Wall-to-Wall Poetry in A&W, Archipel Willemspark, archived from the original on 2012-10-25, retrieved 2012-06-04.
  10. Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency), archived
    from the original on 2011-09-20, retrieved 2012-06-04.
  11. ^ Le bateau ivre bien ancré dans le 6e (in French), City Hall of the 6th arrondissement, retrieved 2012-06-04[permanent dead link].

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