We’re delighted to be bringing Anne Vegter to the UK in November for a series of events with translator Astrid Alben. This tour is part of the New Dutch Writing programme, supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature and the Dutch Embassy in the UK.

Monday 16 November
Mount Florida Books, Glasgow
with Sophie Collins

Tuesday 17 November
Burley Fisher Books, London
with Charlotte Van den Broeck

Wednesday 18 November
Juno Books, Sheffield

Thursday 19 November
The Bluecoat, Liverpool
hosted by Liverpool Poetry Space

Winner of the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize

A ground-breaking work of contemporary Dutch poetry, following the acclaimed Island mountain glacier (2022), Anne Vegter’s Pig Data exposes the raw nerves of power and desire.

The collection orchestrates a mythic and historical collision between three formidable figures – the South African poet Ingrid Jonker, the mythical witch Medea, and a provocative poetic ‘I’ (evoking the trope of the ‘scorned woman’) – to interrogate the male gaze and the transformative potential of female rage.

Vegter’s poems tease language to its limit, with a restless energy that is dynamic, vicious and vulgar, infused with humour and absurdist overtones, brought to life through Astrid Alben’s virtuosic translation.

Pig Data fearlessly rebuffs the comforts of traditional form, revelling in contradictions, moving between luminous vulnerability and a fractured, explosive urgency.