{"id":239,"date":"2026-02-19T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/?post_type=poet&#038;p=239"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:59:32","slug":"spinvis","status":"publish","type":"poet","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/en\/poet\/spinvis\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinvis (NLD)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone with a heart for language and music has at least one little room inside it to which Erik de Jong (1961, NLD) holds a copy of the key. His poetic pop music is subtly comical and always a little enigmatic. If you have ever found yourself humming along and wondering what goes on in the mind behind Spinvis, then you cannot miss his in-depth interview at this festival edition. How do his lines come into being? Who or what inspires him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How you might know this artist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Winner of the Lennaert Nijgh Prize (2023) for best lyricist.\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Winner of the Popprijs (2006), the leading award in Dutch pop music.\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recipient of the Zilveren Harp (2004) for exceptional talent.\u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":124,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-239","poet","type-poet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":239,"nl":112},"pll_sync_post":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poet"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/239\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}