After first making her mark as a compelling performer, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck was acclaimed as one of Europe’s most innovative and original new voices in poetry following the publication of her first collection Chameleon in 2015. Her first English translation combines her debut volume with her second book Nachtroer (2017), its untranslatable title the name of all-night shop in Antwerp where she lives. Chameleon is a set of apparently naïve but knowingly ironic, playful and subversive poems which trace a girl’s search for a woman’s identity, a coming-of-age exploration of body and language drawing on memories, shapes and landscapes. In Nachtroer her poems take a nighttime journey through heartbreak, insomnia and the hectic flow of daily life, driven by a desire for disappearance, displacement and dissolution. Chameleon ends with taking to the ocean. Nachtroer’s last poem is about building a boat for such a voyage. Chameleon | Nachtroer sets the two books afloat in English.
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David Colmer is an Australian writer and translator who lives in Amsterdam. He has won many prizes for his translations of Dutch literature, including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (both with novelist Gerbrand Bakker), and major Australian and Dutch awards for his body of work. His translations of the poetry of Hugo Claus and Ramsey Nasr were shortlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the Popescu Prize respectively, and his translation of a selection of Annie M.G. Schmidt’s classic children’s poetry was specially commended by the Foundation for Dutch Literature. Recent poetry translations include Paul van Ostaijen’s modernist classic Occupied City and Menno Wigman’s Window-cleaner Sees Paintings. His translation of a collection of the poetry of Mustafa Stitou will be published in 2019, and his translation of two collections by Flemish poet Charlotte Van den Broeck, Chameleon | Nachtroer, by Bloodaxe also in 2019.
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