{"id":1098,"date":"2026-03-31T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/?post_type=event&p=1098"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:44:57","slug":"main-reading-dominique-de-groen-hendri-yulius-wijaya","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/en\/event\/main-reading-dominique-de-groen-hendri-yulius-wijaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Reading: Dominique De Groen & Hendri Yulius Wijaya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Take a seat at the main reading of poets Hendri Yulius Wijaya and Dominique De Groen. This is the moment to get to know both the poetry and the person behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominique De Groen (1991) is one of the most distinctive voices of her generation in the Dutch-language literary landscape. With her understated delivery and raw language, she explores how technology, ecological crises and everyday systems shape us, as well as the different ways we navigate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michele Hutchison, translator of De Groen\u2019s poetry, will present a live reading of a selection of her poems in English translation during this programme.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hendri Yulius Wijaya (1990) is this year\u2019s Poet in Residence at Poetry International and one of the few openly queer poets in Indonesia. In his work, he shows how the norms of family, community and country can be constraining and where he finds or creates space to simply be who he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Host Tsead Bruinja opens the main reading with a short introductory conversation. The poets then read from their own work, bringing a selection of brand-new poems, an ode to the festival theme, or a surprising gem from their oeuvre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"event_date":"2026-06-05","footnotes":""},"venue":[266],"event_type":[97],"route":[],"class_list":["post-1098","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","venue-lantarenvenster-5","event_type-reading"],"acf":{"event_location":266,"event_location_source":{"label":"Locatie","type":"taxonomy","formatted_value":266},"event_category":[97],"event_category_source":{"label":"Categorie","type":"taxonomy","formatted_value":[97]},"language":["english"],"language_source":{"label":"Voertaal","type":"select","formatted_value":[{"value":"english","label":"Engels"}]},"spoken_languages":"English, Bahasa Indonesia, Dutch","spoken_languages_source":{"label":"Gesproken talen","type":"text","formatted_value":"English, Bahasa Indonesia, Dutch"},"language_label":"spoken","language_label_source":{"label":"Label","type":"select","formatted_value":"Gesproken talen"},"subtitles":["english","dutch"],"subtitles_source":{"label":"Boventiteling","type":"select","formatted_value":["Engels","Nederlands"]},"has_interpreter":false,"has_interpreter_source":{"label":"Tolk NGT\/Schrijftolk","type":"true_false","formatted_value":false},"poets":[233,224,2508],"poets_source":{"label":"Dichters","type":"relationship","formatted_value":[{"ID":233,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2026-02-19 16:38:55","post_date_gmt":"2026-02-19 15:38:55","post_content":"\n

Dominique De Groen (1991, BEL) ranks among the most distinctive and outspoken voices of her generation in the Dutch-language poetry scene. With her understated delivery and raw wording, De Groen\u2019s work may at first sound slightly ominous. Attentive listeners, however, will hear an inspiring call to break free from an ecologically derailed system, from the grip of technology and from the everyday grind we have come to accept as inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How you might know this poet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n