Eddy van Vliet
Belgi / Belgium
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Poetry on the Road Maastricht

(Antwerp, 1942) commenced his career as a poet when he was 22 years of age with the volume Het lied van ik (The song about I), in which he confronted his readers with the contrasts good/bad, love/aggression. Those same themes also characterised the volumes Duel and Columbus tevergeefs (Columbus in vain) which were published some years later. In these early works he gave a rather over-simplified description of his battle against evil, and his critical attitude in relation to society was quite obvious. But the collection Het grote verdriet (The great sadness, 1974) stood back somewhat, and some lines even expressed self-mockery.

The latter volume was awarded the Jan Campert Prize 1975; the jury mentioned his `longing for security and his resistance to accepting impending matters: farewell, death, alienation as well as society in its present form.'

In 1978 the collection Na de Wetten van Afscheid en Herfst (After the Laws of Parting and Autumn) was published, followed one year later by Glazen (Glasses).

There was evidence of certain changes in Eddy van Vliet's view of the world in his Jaren na maart (Years after March). According to a critic: `He has replaced the poetry of melancholy by the poetry of the maker, the seer. They show the poet as a snake crawling out of its skin and exposing a shiny new one.' The love poems emphasized fragility, pain, parting and disillusionment.

Van Vliet's most recent collection of poems is De toekomstige dief (The future thief), a title derived from Remco Campert, based on the theme: `I'm going to buy myself a bike. And somewhere in town its future thief is already roaming the streets.' Its contents express refusal to accept the inevitable; the adult who stubbornly hangs on to his childhood dreams, the lover who blindly begins an affair bound to end up in failure. Longing and want, expressed in melancholic, disillusioned, angry as well as sarcastic poems. A quote which says it all: `The stamp still missing from my collection / became my most prized possession.'

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