![]() His poetry is on the whole melancholy, sombre in tone. There is also a link with certain trends in pop music Wigman has played in punk rock bands. ![]() The existence he describes has all the hallmarks of a lost generation in the style of the French Poètes Maudits. Three poetry collections and one prose volume followed.Īccording to Schouten, Wigman is a poet with clearly identifiable literary roots: “As a poet, and also as a translator, he is steeped in the tradition of nineteenth-century dark romanticism, including that period’s mix of posture and authenticity. ![]() The poet had published just two official collections at that time, and already fellow poet Ingmar Heytze was declaring him “the best poet of our generation”. ![]() “Menno Wigman is not only one of today’s most interesting young Dutch poets, he also seems to speak for a whole new generation,” wrote Dutch critic Rob Schouten in 2002 when Wigman was performing at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam. ![]()
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