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from the debris of empires towards awakening
The journey
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The journey
When you are lost, wander
from the debris of empires, through love and loss, towards truth and awakening.
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BETWEEN THE SEEN AND UNSEEN
Inside the book, the seven days
Seven poems a day,
each titled after a place.
A taste of the pages
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Paper, ink, binding,
part of the work.
Format, A6 travel size
Edition, 2
Cards, € 1 each
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One of the poets packs every order by hand. Patience is part of the fun.
7 PLACES • BOOK OR CARD SET • € 25 EACH
A place as a book, or the same 49 art poems as loose cards (€ 49 card by card, € 25 as a set).
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all seven books € 175 save € 25
€ 150
all 343 cards € 343 save € 193
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Parcels leave the house on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Now the waiting begins. That’s part of the fun.
Parcels leave the house on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Now the waiting begins. That’s part of the fun.
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On a phone the order still travels the old way: tap below and your basket arrives as an email, which one of us reads at the kitchen table. Automatic ordering is being built, slowly, by the same pair of hands that folds the parcels. Thank you for the patience, and for reading this far.
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BoJa
7 Days is a poetry project by Boris van Bennekum & Jaïn van Nigtevegt
Travelling to cities that shaped world history, trying to see them beyond the tourist’s gaze. Each book: seven days in one city. Each day: seven poems. Each poem: seven lines of seven syllables.
The entire project is about seeing the unseen.
The septimus
A form we made for this journey. Seven lines, seven syllables to a line, rhyming ABBAABA, so the first, fourth, fifth and last line answer one another while the middle three hold their own note. Seven septimi make a day, seven days make a city.
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BETWEEN THE SEEN AND UNSEEN
7 books · 7 cities · 7 days · 7 poems · 7 lines · 7 syllables
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Hand written with love, from the Netherlands
Hand written with love, from the Netherlands