René Oskam

Ten years ago, René Oskam quit his office job. "You can't make a living from poetry," he was told - but he stayed the course. In his anniversary tour Carrousel, he looks back on that decade.

In a hybrid form between cabaret and poetry, he reveals the highs and lows: sleepless nights fueled by a flood of ideas, calm periods when nothing made it onto paper, the euphoria of packed venues, and his worst performance ever. Raw, honest and hilarious poetry, satire and sharp observations.

"René writes songs without music! Not a beat too many or a syllable too few. I don't read René's poems, I hum them!" - Remco Veldhuis

"Think the written René is cool? Wait until you see him on stage! Go!" - Derek Otte