Big Data

Anne Vegter

Babies and piglets, long lines and open spaces: this new collection by the former Poet Laureate contains big data! An explosive collection of zeros and ones that tells the story of pain and anger, but in a form that clarifies chaos and offers prospects – 'I hate to say it, but the sea is fair'.

Vegter's poetry weighs, weighs and aims. Personal poems are juxtaposed with a long text about the European journey of the South African Ingrid Jonker. Language connects the energetic with the fearful, the playful with the painfully cutting.