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Everyone is sitting at home. So are most criminals. You notice this especially digitally. Six months ago, the flood of spam came in: from brazen to almost touching extortion attempts, the abstract poetry of automatically translated alarm messages and clumsy angling for bank details.
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Ingmar Heytze

Born 1970 in Utrecht. Poet. First house philosopher of the Centraal Museum (1999-2000) and first city poet of Utrecht (2009-2011). Wrote anti-sports columns for the Volkskrant for two years and columns for the (AD) Utrechts Nieuwsblad for twenty years. Currently works for Onze Taal. Wrote some fifteen books of poetry and is always working on new work. Won the C.C.S. Croneprijs in 2008 for his entire oeuvre and received the Maartenspenning of the city of Utrecht in 2016.View Author posts

Everyone is sitting at home. So are most criminals. You notice this especially digitally. Six months ago, the flood of spam came in: from brazen to almost touching extortion attempts, the abstract poetry of automatically translated alarm messages and clumsy angling for bank details.
Voor dat soort berichten ben ik niet zo bang. Ik ben dichter. Ik ben al gewend om te lezen onder het bekende motto van Martinus Nijhoff: ‘Lees maar, er niet staat wat er staat.’ Wat er wel staat, moet worden gewant...

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