Recently, Arc Publications in the UK has published a collection of poetry by
one of the great Dutch poets alive today, Remco Campert: "I Dreamed in the
Cities at Night".

The light, off-hand tone of Campert’s work, perfectly captured in this subtle and sensitive translation by Donald Gardner (himself a poet of distinction) is deceptive, so that it is easy to overlook its engagement with life. Campert is someone who thinks in poetry. His themes are love, desire and transience, but his treatment is never top-heavy.

This selection is drawn, with some exceptions, from Campert’s mature work and is
thematic rather than chronological. The poems form a sequence leading from
fragmentary, darkly erotic texts via others composed in a more personal
lyrical mode to the meditative seriousness of the last poems in the book.

Perdu Bookstore, the only poetry bookshop in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and
maybe even Europe, invites you for an afternoon with Donald Gardner,
Campert's translator, where you can listen to him explain the how and why of
the translations, and perform Campert's poetry.

Of course "I Dreamed in the Cities at Night" will be available at the bookshop.

www.perdu.nl