The sinologist and poet Lloyd Haft (1946), whose earlier work includes a rewriting of the Psalms (2003), has had the courage to translate a wide selection of Gorter’s work into English. In Haft’s version, Gorter sounds the way he should sound: musical and sensitive, at times groping, at other times jubilant, always sure of himself and amazing.

No other Dutch poet’s work is as exciting as Gorter’s, so much so that you sometimes downright fall in love with it. For readers of English it will be a feast to be able to make his acquaintance via this translation.

- Piet Gerbrandy, prizewinning poet

This is Volume 2 of The Essential Gorter, companion to Volume 1: May, an epic poem about youth.

The Essential Gorter is available in illustrated edition in the UK with Stour Valley Publishing and in The Netherlands and Belgium with Arimei Books. 

Note the US version is not illustrated.