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Tom Van de Voorde © Silvestar Vrljic
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Sketches of contemporary landscapes feature in Vliesgevels filter, the 2008 debut collection of Flemish poet Tom Van de Voorde (b. 1974 in Ghent, Belgium). Microscopically fine snapshots and reflections on political and economic themes form the heart of his second collection Liefde en aarde (2013), which was nominated for the Herman De Coninck Prize for the Best Poetry Collection. His latest collection, Zwembad de verbeelding followed in 2017, and in 2016 a selection of his poems in Swedish translation appeared in Rámus förlag.
He translates American poets including Wallace Stevens, Michael Palmer and Ariana Reines as well as, in collaboration with Staša Pavlović, the Slovenian poets Katja Perat and Tomaž Šalamun and, with Shaalan Sharif, the poems of Ghassan Zaqtan into Dutch. Tom Van der Voorde has been Poet Laureate of the Versopolis Project, a European platform for emerging poets, sponsored by Creative Europe.
Since 2010 Tom Van de Voorde has been the curator of the literature programme at the BOZAR Centre of Fine Arts in Brussels. In this capacity he has developed an interdisciplinary series in which writers enter into dialogue with music and fine art. From 2005 to 2010 he worked for the Flemish Literature Fund was involved in the promotion of poetry, recording 46 Flemish poets for lyrikline during that period.
Publications:
Vliesgevels filter, poëziecentrum 2008
Liefde en aarde, poëziecentrum 2013
Zwembad de verbeelding, poëziecentrum 2017
Awards:
Poetry Award of East Flanders 2017