Elly de Waard - Walking on air

Elly de Waard

Walking on air, 14 poems
13.6 x 23 cm
Sewn (Cahierstitch) in cover
printed brown red, dark blue and iris print
24 pages.
On the occasion of the fortieth birthday of Caroline van Tuyll van Serooskerken.
Paper: Dutch edition by Van Gelder.
Edition: numbered edition of 48 copies
Published by Salix Alba
1991

Elly de Waard (1940) is a Dutch poet, translator, reviewer and pop critic. For over fifteen years (from 1967 to 1985) she wrote reviews of pop music in Het Vrije Volk, de Volkskrant and Vrij Nederland respectively. A large number of these reviews, interviews and essays were collected in the voluminous book Het Jasje van David Bowie (Twenty Years of Pop Music),
After the Murmelliusgymnasium in Alkmaar, De Waard studied Dutch Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In the sixties, she lived together with poet Chr.J. van Geel. After his death in 1974, she started writing poetry herself. In 1978, she made her debut as a poet with the collection Afstand. Her most important examples were Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Vasalis and Ida Gerhardt.
Elly de Waard has also been a jury member for the Edison Music Award, PC Hooft Prize, VSB Poetry Prize, Herman Gorter Prize and the C. Buddingh' Prize.