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Piet Piryns: 'TivoliVredenburg is main character of The Night of Poetry'

It has been eagerly awaited for weeks: the Night of Poetry. For the thirty-fourth time next month, poets and audience gather around the stage for a night of verses and music. Regular presenter Piet Piryns, now fused with the event, looks back and ahead.
"Er wordt te veel gestorven,' vindt Piet Piryns, die heel wat dichters heeft zien komen en gaan op De Nacht van de Poëzie. ©Marc Brester/AQM
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A Quattro Mani

Photographer Marc Brester and journalist Vivian de Gier can read and write with each other - literally. As partners in crime, they travel the world for various media, for reviews of the finest literature and personal interviews with the writers who matter. Ahead of the troops and beyond the delusion of the day.View Author posts

It has been eagerly awaited for weeks: the Night of Poetry. For the thirty-fourth time next month, poets and audience gather around the stage for a night of verses and music. Regular presenter Piet Piryns, now fused with the event, looks back and ahead.
"Er wordt te veel gestorven,' vindt Piet Piryns, die heel wat dichters heeft zien komen en gaan op De Nacht van de Poëzie. ©Marc Brester/AQM
Hij weet het no...

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