Herman Leenders is Bruges fifth free city poet.
Eleven Bruges city poems were commissioned with him to echo beauty and comfort, joy and ordeal, Bruges and the world.
The city poet is called by the muses of Poëziebos (poetry forest), in close collaboration with Poëziebosnetwerk, Brugse Boekhandel en Boekhandel De Reyghere.

'Boeveriestreet 41', the poem for the Abbey of Saint-Godelieve, has been published on the saint’s name-day on 6th July 2016. You can download the poem here.

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