Veva Leye

(Oostende, 1981) is one of the most innovative young Flemish poets of our time. In many languages, topographies and language registers she tirelessly seeks out the limits of our limitless world. Since 2011 she works at CINEMATEK (the Brussels' film museum) and edits texts about film, mainly for cinephile platform sabzian.be. Her work as well as big thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek - known for his humorous, Marxist cultural criticism - are clear inspirations of here poetry. She is currently a guest writer with the literary Magazine nY, where she is experimenting in four issues. In that capacity, she undertook a written "dialogue" with the late writer, poet and translator Jacq Vogelaar. He called it "writing back". Leye quotes him: "Writing back is necessary, also over time, in order to defend yourself."