to the reader, poems in Dutch and English, concrete poems, images. Stubbing Out a Cigarette on a Nightingale will be Benders’ first English language poetry collection. In 2014, Dutch publisher van Gennep has republished some of Benders’ works that had only been available as self-published prints. Benders published five books with van Gennep but in 2019 after a discussion with Ruud Poppelaars and Monique van der Kubbe he decided to get involved in the new publishing house De Kaneelfabriek, a name loosely based on a novel by Bruno Schulz. He has since published Baah Baaah Krakschaap/ De P van Winterslaap there, a counterprinted experimental volume of poetry that managed to sell out two prints, unique for such experimental poetry. In 2020/2021 Benders published a Gaelic based collection of 'magical poetry' Ginneninne that infused the Dutch language with Gaelic and Irish-based neologisms. He subsequently mailed the book to critics with a tab of 1cp-LSD inside, since critic Piet Gerbrandy in his review of Baah Baaah Krakschaap had written that 'sober analysis does not yield too much result'. Karavanserai In May 2009, Benders was nominated for the C. Buddingh'-prijs for Dutch-language poetry with Karavanserai. However, he performed a Laibach-like performance together with Bart van der Pligt entitled 'Lezen is Lezen' with the Lorcaesque slogan 'The criticism is the tragic constant in the face of the Prize', a variation on 'The moustache is the tragic constant in the face of the man', a comment Lorca made on Hitler. (1) The composer Samuel Vriezen stood up during the performance with a fake moustache stuck on screaming 'the Buddingh' Prize must be taken seriously!' Erik Lindner in De Groene Amsterdammer calls this a courageous debut ('Martijn Benders has something few poets have: guts']) and compares Benders to Tonnus Oosterhof, by his own admission the first time such a comparison has struck him. (2) What do I buy for your dark-wild powers, William In 2011, Benders founded his own publishing house Loewak, named after his active weblog. This is where his second collection What do I buy for your dark-wild powers, Willem was published. This collection contains a number of poems that Benders composed via email with others: Samuel Vriezen, Eva Cox, Bart van der Pligt and Morphin van Geeuwen, among others. Immediately after the publication of the collection, Christian professor Tom van Deel launched the attack via the review service Biblion, intended for libraries. According