wall poems in Leiden

The Wall Poems project was partly funded by the private Tegen-Beeld foundation of Ben Walenkamp and Jan Willem Bruins, the project's two artists, with additional funding from several corporations and the city of Leiden. It began in 1992 with a poem in Russian by Marina Tsvetaeva and (temporarily) finished in 2005 with the Spanish poem De Profundis by Federico García Lorca.{{citation|url=http://www.muurgedichten.nl/wallpoems.html|title=The Wall Poems of Leiden|access-date=2012-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703085124/http://www.muurgedichten.nl/wallpoems.html|archive-date=2012-07-03|url-status=dead}}. Other poets included in the set include E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Jan Hanlo, Du Fu, Louis Oliver, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Shakespeare, and W. B. Yeats,{{citation|contribution=Poetry on the Wall|first=Stephan|last=Fihn|page=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_BRStSsWgIC&pg=PA59|title=Another Word A Day: An All-new Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words In English|editor-first=Anu|editor-last=Garg|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2005|isbn=9780471718451}}.{{citation|title=The Land of Good Deeds|first=Patrick J.|last=Crerand|publisher=University of Louisiana at Lafayette|series=Ph.D. thesis|year=2008|page=5|isbn=9780549627180|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXxbnD_ux2oC&pg=PA5}}. as well as local writers Piet Paaltjens and J. C. Bloem. One of the more obscure poems in the collection is written in the Buginese language on a canal wall near the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies; it and many of the other poems are accompanied by plaques with translations into Dutch and English.{{citation|last=Khouw|first=Ida Indawati|title=Leiden, the Dutch city of poems|date=July 15, 2001|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2001/07/14/leiden-dutch-city-poems.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204016/http://www2.thejakartapost.com/news/2001/07/14/leiden-dutch-city-poems.html|url-status=dead|journal=Jakarta Post|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}.

A guide available on the web describes a walking tour for visitors to Leiden that takes in 25 of the 101 poems.{{citation|url=http://www.muurgedichten.nl/wandeling.html|title=Wandeling langs de Muurgedichten van Leiden|language=nl|access-date=2012-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125082058/http://www.muurgedichten.nl/wandeling.html|archive-date=2012-01-25|url-status=live}}. The first 43 poems have been collected in a book by Marleen van der Weij, Dicht op de muur: gedichten in Leiden, and the rest are described in a second volume, published in 2005.Dienst Bouwen en Wonen, Leiden, 1996, reprinted 2000 and 2005 by Burgersdijk & Niermans, Leiden; see [http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_bks&q=%22Dicht+op+de+muur%22&fq=dt%3Abks worldcat]. A second volume, published in 2005, (Dicht op de muur 2) describes the poems 44-101.

File:WilliamShakespeareSonnetXXXLeidenWallPoem.jpg|William Shakespeare

File:EecummingsLeidenWallPoem.jpg|E.E. Cummings

File:Du Fu - Kexi.jpg|Du Fu

File:NiikuniSeiichiShuKawaLeidenWallPoem.jpg|Seiichi Niikuni

File:Treno in corsa wall poem, Pelikaanstraat, Leiden, Netherlands - 20100630.jpg|Cesare Simonetti

File:MarinaTsvetajevaLeidenWallPoem.jpg|Marina Tsvetaeva

File:WotkoceOkisceMaskokeOkisceLeidenWallPoem.jpg|Louis Oliver

File:FedericoGarciaLorcaDeProfundisLeidenWallPoem.jpg|Federico García Lorca

File:Osip Mandelstam - Leningrad - Haagweg 29, Leiden.JPG|Osip Mandelstam

File:Cees van Hoore , Avond op het land, Kiekendiefhorst 1, Leiden.jpg|Cees van Hoore

File:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - Zang tumb tumb - Hoge Rijndijk 8, Leiden.JPG|Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

File:Muurgedicht Jabra Ibrahim Jabra,-Als een poolwinter...,Berlagestraat 13a,Leiden.jpg|Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

File:Nils Ferlin Leiden.JPG|Nils Ferlin

File:Matsuo Basho - Een woedende zee - Rapenburg 75, Leiden.JPG|Bashō

File:Serat Kalatidha-Leiden01.jpg|Ranggawarsita

File:Vallana - Haagweg 14, Leiden.JPG|Vallana

File:Wisława Szymborska - Pochwała.JPG|Wisława Szymborska

File:Webcam Quarantaine.jpg|Joost van Gijzen

File:RobertFrostLeiden2017.jpg|Robert Frost

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Based on the success of the Leiden poetry project, wall poems have also been painted in several other Dutch cities.{{citation|language=nl|title=Gedichten op murenroute Veenendaal van start|url=http://www.veenendaalsekrant.nl/scripts/edoris/edoris.dll?tem=ln_WARCTEXT_view&doc_id=10933935&pageid=0|date=December 14, 2009|journal=VeenendalseKrant}}.{{citation|title=Wall-to-Wall Poetry in A&W|url=http://www.archipelwillemspark.nl/www_engels/?p=2684|publisher=Archipel Willemspark|access-date=2012-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025094253/http://www.archipelwillemspark.nl/www_engels/?p=2684|archive-date=2012-10-25|url-status=live}}. In 2004 the Dutch embassy to Bulgaria launched a similar project in Sofia,{{citation|title=Wall-to-Wall Poetry: How the Dutch Bring European 'Unity in Diversity' to Sofia|first=Ivan|last=Dikov|date=January 27, 2010|publisher=Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)|url=http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=112440|access-date=2012-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920062027/http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=112440|archive-date=2011-09-20|url-status=live}}. and in 2012 the Tegen-Beeld foundation collaborated with the International Society of Friends of Rimbaud to paint a poem by Arthur Rimbaud, "Le Bateau ivre", on a government building in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.{{citation|url=http://www.mairie06.paris.fr/mairie06/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?document_id=18243&portlet_id=1525|title=Le bateau ivre bien ancré dans le 6e|language=fr|publisher=City Hall of the 6th arrondissement|access-date=2012-06-04}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.

In 2012 a poem by Marsman was painted on a wall in Berlin.

• Marleen van der Weij: Dicht op de muur. Gedichten in Leiden. Gemeente Leiden, Dienst Bouwen en Wonen, 1996. {{ISBN|9080139580}} (2nd ed.: 1996, 3rd ed.: 1997). 6th, rev. ed.: Burgersdijk & Niermans, Leiden, 2000. {{ISBN|9075089082}} [Description of the first 43 poems].
• Marleen van der Weij: Dicht op de muur 2. Gedichten in Leiden. Burgersdijk & Niermans, Leiden, 2005. {{ISBN|9075089112}} [Description of the poems 44-101]

• Poems on the Underground, a public display of poetry in the London Underground{{Clear}}

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• [https://www.muurgedichten.nl/en/muurgedichten Complete list of all poems, with some background information on the project and the poems]

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