Perquin is a poet fascinated with humans and their stories, whether prisoners or nameless, strange but recognizable figures.

Dreams of the Island and the Old City. 33 color plates

Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk's Eye on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent summers for decades.