Bartelomeus Frederik Maria (Bart FM) Droog (born 18 February 1966, Emmen) is a Dutch poet,

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and researcher. As a poet, Droog performed on stages inside and outside the Netherlands, notably with De Dichters uit Epibreren, a group consisting of the poets Droog and Tjitse Hofman and the musician Jan Klug, which he co-founded. De Dichters uit Epibreren existed from 1994 to 2011; in 2003 they were awarded the Johnny van Doorn Prize for Spoken Literature. Droog took stage in

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and many European countries. In 2002, the city council of

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appointed Droog as the first stadsdichter (city poet), for a three year period. In that period he developed the concept of 'De eenzame uitvaart' (The Lonely Funeral): the city poet writes a poem for the deceased without relatives and reads the poem at the funeral. Poets in other cities in the Netherlands and

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adopted this idea. Droog was, from 2008 to 2010, also the city poet of his town of birth. He established the Stichting Nederlandse Poëzie Encyclopedie (Foundation Dutch Poetry Encyclopedia), of which the main goals are to spread Dutch poetry and the knowledge of Dutch language poetry, including through the online Poetry Encyclopedia, the Nederlandse Poëzie Encyclopedie. From 2013 onwards, Droog also works as an investigative journalist. Subjects he has published about include: * An unsolved murder case in Groningen's squatters scene in 1990 * Forged poems by

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* The probably wrong attribution of a painting to Adolf Hitler by the Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), a study that was widely cited internationally * Hendrik de Jong ('the Dutch

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') * The controversy surrounding the admittance of Ad van Liempt to the degree of

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(Ph.D.) at the State

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(Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen) in May 2019.'Promotie tegen beter weten in'
Droog Magazine, 2019

Bibliography

* ''Deze dagen'', 1998 (debut) * ''Benzine'', 2000 * ''In memoriam prins Claus'', 2002 * ''Radioactief'', 2004 * ''Cahier L'', 2005 * ''Veldheer en andere liefdesgedichten'', 2009 * ''Eenzame uitvaart'', 2013 * ''Zeewaarts'', 2013 * ''Novgorod'', 2014 * ''Moordballaden'', 2017 (anthology)

Notes and references

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