Foarby alle klokken
By Eeltsje Hettinga
The card is located at Bartholomeuskerk Westhem and Dorpskerk Goingarijp
This summer the 1st is open every Sat, the 2nd every day; while stocks last!
Stêden ta grús, ta stof,
ruters oer de loft
fjoer dat, fervjend de rivieren,
yn fonkjende kolommen
de himel yn dûkt.
De telefoan yn ’e hân
(dy’t ik net yn ’e hân haw)
bringt in lyts Babylon
oan hottefyljende
lûden en stimmen.
Yn de soele neimiddei
stap ik, happend
nei lucht, fierder
it smelle Brekkenpaad
ûnder Sânfird del.
By alle Johannesbylden
sykje ik koelte en
ferromming achter
reidkragen oan de mar,
lis de wrâld ôf en
lit my stadich-
wei it wetter ynglydzje,
hear ûnder de hoare fierte
foarby alle klokken
en oarloggen
ien amerij
it ljochte sjongen fan in frou.
Painting: Elske Schotanus (walnut ink on handmade paper 21×21)
Eeltsje Hettinga
Eeltsje Hettinga (Burgwerd, 1955) is a poet, translator, pamphleteer and has written several monographs on artists. In the mid 2000’s, he was the initiator of the literary internet magazine Kistwurk, a first in the Frisian literary world. The magazine existed for over two years. After the disappearance of Kistwurk, Hettinga was digitally active on – respectively – the one-man stage Erosmos, the literary internet magazine Go-gol, the blog Goloch and a blog under his own name. In 2016, the Fries Museum and Museum Belvédère showed It Font, Frisian-language video poetry, a unique project in collaboration with video artist Lotte Middendorp. Hettinga received a Rely Jorritsma Prize four times for his poems. He received the Fedde Schurer Prize for his debut Akten fan winter. Eeltsje Hettinga was the first Poet Laureate of Friesland (2017-2019). The most recent publication is Te pearde Te peerde (2023), a bilingual anthology with an introductory essay by Elske Schotanus.
Photograph: Jacob van Essen