Poem by Dichterskring Waterland
Poetry in public spaces has an added value. You stand still for a moment, it can surprise you, put a smile on your face or make you daydream. In Zuidersteeg, a permanent poem hangs on the poetry wall. Poets from the Waterland Poetry Circle write poems for it.
The Poetry Circle works together with the Dijklander hospital and Zorgcirkel Waterland on the project 'Poetry in public spaces'. Each year, poems are hung on banners in the hall of the hospital and various nursing homes, which rotate among themselves. From 2019, a new poem will hang on the Eggert Shopping Centre (opposite bookshop Het Leesteken in Zuidersteeg) every year. Since the beginning of 2023, the poem in Zuidersteeg will be moved after a year to the side wall of Villa Zuidwijk in Zuidoostbeemster. A new poem will then appear in Zuidersteeg. Until 2018, the poems hung on the side of Proeflokaal Bakker.