Poetry
At night the world disappears
2016
Jaap Robben doesn’t write specifically for an age, but for everyone in particular. In his poetry, the boundary between children and adults is non-existent.
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If someone will ever find my bones
2012
Every year, a number of new words are added to the Dutch dictionary. But that also means some words have to make way, the so-called disappearing words.
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The Night Crickets
2007
The Night Crickets is a collection of poems plus the odd short story in which the world is constantly
described with a serious wink.
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Let’s start a Forest
2008
The poems in Zullen we een bos beginnen? (Shall we start a forest?) are about the magnification of
a grain of sand and the diminution of the whole world at the same time.
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Twee vliegen
Zijn eerste bundel Twee vliegen bracht Jaap uit in eigen beheer. Onder de naam Uitgeverij Steunzool.