{"product_id":"an-english-anthology","title":"English Anthology","description":"`I was born in Belgium, I’m Belgian. \/ But Belgium was never born in me.’ So writes Leonard Nolens in `Place and Date’, which captures a mood of political and social disillusionment amid a generation of Dutch-speaking Belgians. And throughout this selection we encounter a poet engaged with the question of national identity.\n\nFrequently the poet moves into that risky terrain, the firstperson plural, in which he speaks as and for a generation of Flemings, embodying an attitude towards artistic and political commitment that he considers its defining mark. `We curled up dejectedly in the spare wheel of May sixtyeight’, he writes in the selection’s central sequence `Breach’.\n\nNolens’ poetry is haunted by giants of twentieth-century European lyricism, by Rilke, Valéry, Neruda, Mandelstam and Celan, with whom he has arguably more affinity than with much poetry from the Dutch-language canon.","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32118164422739,"sku":"","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781784105747_9a50f089-c714-438a-a3d3-3a7b4ed1fda1.jpg?v=1765875654","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/an-english-anthology","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}