This collection of Collected Poems 1998-2008 contains the award-winning and acclaimed collections Van de vierkant man (1998), The glimmering of the welkwiek (2001), Dolores (2002) and In the name of the dog (2005), as well as the sonnet wreath Ropes from The big dredging book (2004), the song lyrics for Ellen ten Damme until 2008 and unbundled poems that were written between 1998 and 2008. The previously unreleased collection Doka has been added to this as well as the long narrative poem Lilith, not published before.