Poetry Week has begun! Mostly online, unfortunately, again. Ramsey Nasr’s gift sums up the situation beautifully

That Mark Rutte once referred to a poem in an official speech – you can hardly imagine it after the past two years with all that inclement weather for art. It was in 2019 at the MH17 commemoration, he quoted poet Bert Schierbeek: ‘I think / if it rains / don’t let them get wet.’

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