Walking this town, you can read Shakespeare and Basho, Pablo Neruda, Sapho, Derek Walcott, and William Butler Yeats. All these poems written in their original language are part of the ‘Poems and Walls’ project. There is a special relationship between the city of Leiden and this project, because Leiden has been home of remarkable number of writers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38yKsVGRY4U
To pursue this issue, you can visit the gallery of pictures: http://meetingbenches.com/2017/03/pictures-wall-poems-leiden/
“Poems and Wall’s Project” – you can see the numbers on this webpage : http://www.muurgedichten.nl/indexopontstaan.html was complete in 2005
The first 43 poems, have been collected in an special book https://www.amazon.com/Dicht-muur-Gedichten-Leiden-Houttuyn/dp/9075089082
Based on the success this poetry project, wall poems have been painted in several other Dutch cities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyR6Trwi4tc
The intellectual property of the images that appear in this blog correspond to their authors. The sole purpose of this site, is to spread the knowledge of these painters and that other people enjoy their works.
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