Parchment, Testament

Joris Iven (°1954, Belgium) has published several volumes of poetry, e.g.: “Gallery The Yew“ (1987), “Egyptian Black” (1993), “Split us“ (1994), “Parchment/Testament” (2001), “Altoghether” (2005) and “Ninglinspo” (2008). He has translated poetry of the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet, the Moroccan poets Abdellatif Laâbi and Tahar Ben Jelloun, the Indian poetess Sujata Bhatt, the American poets Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Charles Simic, and many others. Translator: John Irons (b. 1942, England), poet and translator, studied French, German and Dutch at Cambridge University. He has translated a wide range of poetry by Dutch, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish poets. He has lived in Scandinavia since 1968 and at present resides in Denmark.