‘Ah, the comfort of a comparison'. The Poetry of Herman de Coninck

Herman de Coninck was a literary editor and an essayist who wrote infectiously about poetry. But first and foremost he was the most popular poet in Flanders. He wrote about subjects close to home, in a simple and accessible language of rare virtuosity and taking a balanced approach to his themes: humorous and playful, but without diminishing their underlying seriousness and tragic element. (with five translated poems by Herman de Coninck)