The colours of the heart

cannot be captured on a flag.

And what can science explain

about your suffering?

What do the numbers say about

the memories that haunt you in dreams?

—Robin Block,

‘Inner War.’

One day,

I stripped off my childhood

to arrive at a passage

towards to adulthood

Overseas

—Angelina Enny,

‘One Day I Crossed.’

Too often, Indonesia and the

Netherlands present their shared history

as two separate stories that barely seem

to touch one another. Grand narratives

of heroes, victims, soldiers and flags. But

where is the common ground? Where

can we place the subtle twists of fate

and ambiguities of the heart? What do

we do with the personal stories that fit

neither country nor flag?

In Between brings two worlds together

in poems, personal stories and mantras.

Robin Block (NL) and Angelina Enny (ID)

create an in-between world of the past

and present, the mythical and the real,

the personal and the universal.

What happens when we share

our most personal stories?

And listen to the sounds of

our memories and dreams,

the voices of our ancestors?