‘Less WiFi, more poetry’ is the latest poem by Arjan Hut as Poet laureate of Fryslân. Can also be read today in the Friesch Dagblad, the Leeuwarder Courant and on the Omrop Fryslân website.

The Poet laureate of Fryslân, Arjan Hut: “I have no illusion that someone can exchange screen time for ‘more poetry’ with a slogan or a poem. The title is also addressed to myself – do I want to spend so many hours of my time in the limited space of a screen? Even though my brain screams, do it, do it? Doing more together, being, instead of each in their own algorithm bubble, I think it’s worth a try. The text of this poem is made up of titles I saw in a second hand books store.”

The Dutch translation by Jantsje Post and the English translation by David Colmer can be read on the Dichter van Fryslân website.