Tom Van de Voorde
- Belgium -
Tom Van de Voorde is a Belgian poet who also works as a translator of poetry into Dutch. He translated American poets such as Wallace Stevens, Michael Palmer and Ariana Reines, published in literary magazines, chapbooks and book collection. In 2017 he published the first book length collection of Michael Palmer's poetry into Dutch. Together with Staša Pavlović he translated the poetry of the Slovenian poets Katja Perat and Tomaž Šalamun. He is currently preparing an extensive anthology of Šalamuns poetry in Dutch translation. With the Iraqi poet Shaalan Sharif he translated the poetry of the established Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan.