Hasan Gök (NLD) is a spoken word artist, poet, and presenter who shares a societal voice often still unheard. His work draws on the many worlds that intersect in his life: son of a Turkish father and a Kurdish mother, raised in the Netherlands, queer and Muslim, and a lover of both the spotlight of the stage and the quiet of the night. In these in-between spaces, he embodies all these identities with seeming ease, while conveying the complex emotions that accompany them.

How you may know this poet

• Nominated for the Haagse Queer Award voor Queer uitblinker, and for the El Hizjra Literature Prize.
• Appearances at festivals, pop venues, museums, and media, including PAARD, Amare, Van Gogh Museum, and Omroep ZWART.
• Producer of theatre projects such as PRISMA and Ramadan with Hasan.
• Text Met de handen open for NPO Radio 1 about the 2023 earthquake in Turkey and Syria.