Poets and Speakers

Foto: Goethe-Institut / Munim Wasif

Hendrik Jackson was born in Düsseldorf in 1971. He grew up in Münster (Westfalen). He studied Film, Slavic Studies and Philosophy in Berlin, where he lives as a freelance author and translator. Besides his work as a poet, essayist and translator of works primarily from Russian, he also initiates readings and campaigns. Jackson is also part of the editorial board of www.lyrikkritik.de. Besides this he has organized the Literarturreihe Parlandopark with other poets, in which authors like Monika Rinck, Chrisitian Fillips and Steffen Popp among others participated. He has received several awards for his work.

Poems

Anmerkung zu Jona/
ইউনুস নবীর প্রতি মন্তব্য

Erdreich /
মৃত্তিকাজগৎ

Inventar der Welt /
পৃথিবীর সারণি

Kroppzeug; (hieronymus bosch)/
ইতর; (হিরোনেমাস বস)

Rauschen /
স্ স্ স্

Novemberlicht /
নভেম্বরের আলো