Menno Wigman Netherlands

Menno Wigman (1966-2018) was born in North Holland
in the town of Beverwijk in 1966 and was one of the most
respected and popular Dutch poets of his generation. A
former poet laureate of Amsterdam, he attracted a wide
audience for his books and readings. Wigman was also
active as a musician and an editor and translated the work
of Rilke, Baudelaire and others into Dutch. He published five
full-length collections and won several major prizes.

His poetry has appeared internationally in many
magazines and anthologies and there are French, German
and Spanish selections of his work. The first book-length
publication of his poetry in the UK was Window-cleaner Sees
Paintings (Arc, 2016).

Menno Wigman's collected poems, De poëzie van Menno
Wigman, were published in 2019 by Prometheus.

(2020)