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Liverpool Poetry Space presents an evening with former Dutch Poet Laureate Anne Vegter and translator Astrid Alben, launching Pig Data.

We are delighted to welcome Anne Vegter and translator Astrid Alben to Liverpool, in partnership with UK publisher Prototype. This event is part of New Dutch Writing, supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature.

Pig Data is a collection that exposes the raw nerves of power and desire, and is the winner of the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize.

Anne Vegter is the author of numerous poetry collections, children’s books, theatre monologues, and erotic stories. Her first poetry collection, Het veerde, appeared in 1991, followed in 1994 by Ongekuiste versies, a book of erotic tales. Since then, she has published widely across genres. Her work is characterised by an elastic style that is playful, erotic, enigmatic, and disturbing.

Vegter regularly works as a performer, collaborating with composers and musicians. She has received numerous awards for children’s literature, theatre, and poetry, including the Woutertje Pieterse Prize, the Awater Poetry Prize, the Anna Blaman Prize, and the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize. In 2013, she became the first woman to be named Poet Laureate of the Netherlands, a role she held until 2017.

Astrid Alben is a poet, editor, and translator. She is the author of Ai! Ai! Pianissimo, Plainspeak, and Little Dead Rabbit. Alben self-translated Little Dead Rabbit, published as Klein dood konijn by PoëzieCentrum. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in literary journals including Granta and the Times Literary Supplement. She has worked with BBC Radio, the Serpentine Gallery, and Wellcome Collection, as well as across performance and animation.

Prototype is an independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies, and interdisciplinary projects, founded in 2019. It is committed to expanding the possibilities of contemporary publishing through distinctive book design and cross-genre publishing. In 2022, it published Astrid Alben’s translation of Vegter’s Island Mountain Glacier, which won an English PEN Translates Award.

Thu 19 Nov, 6-8.30pm
£2-5, booking required 

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