The reader is drawn almost breathlessly onward through magnificent word-groups ... The result is a gripping story full of surprising turns of phrase ... Before you know it, you'll be reading it out loud! - Lloyd Haft, prizewinning poet and translator

This thoughtful, lyrical translation will stir the imagination and invite consideration of what makes the heart sing, even if the joy, like May, is only temporary. The poem, though, will endure. - Editor's Pick, BookLife 

The translation has been done meticulously ... with an intensity of language which reveals intuitive clarity of vision and profound empathy ... I recommend that you begin this journey without loss of time. - Anne Walter, editor, ex. Birmingham University

Translating Mei, the epic poem by Herman Gorter, requires musicality ... A great achievement by [translator] Kruijff, with lots of inventive rhyme. It is possible! - Arjan Peters, Dutch literary critic

May has been published in illustrated, bilingual and annotated hardcover edition in The Netherlands and Belgium on 24 March 2021, and has been advertised locally through a press release, mailings to bookstores, freecards and Facebook ad campaigns, 

It has been pre-published in the United States as ebook and paperback in English-only, revised edition as of 26 May 2021. Marketing is through reviews, mailings to bookstores and Facebook ad campaigns.

May will be published in illustrated edition in the UK with Stour Valley Publishing, autumn 2021. At the same time, we hope to publish an exciting new translation of Selected Poems of Herman Gorter.

A reading of May and some Selected Poems as an audiobook by performance artist Simon Mulder is under preparation, and readings of Gorter's work in the UK are in the works for 2022. See https://bit.ly/3BHRmgv 

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