- Tortuca
Tortuca is a Dutch
literature andart smagazine published inRotterdam and available inthe Netherlands andBelgium . The name "Tortuca" has been derived from the mediaeval poem aboutturtle s in "Der naturen bloeme" from the Flemish writer and poetJacob van Maerlant .Founded in
1994 by Herbert Verhey and Bas Kwakman as "Tortuca Private Press," the name was changed to "Tortuca, literature and arts" prior to the publication of the firstmagazine in1996 [Tortuca 1, Autumn MCMXCVI] and extending the board of editors with musicians, artists and writers.The pocketbook-size shaped magazine has no
illustration s on the cover (only the colour changes per issue) and well balanced and coherenttypography in the interior with use of thetypeface sBodoni andGaramond . Apart fromprose (short stories) andpoetry , Tortuca contains a wide variety of art: from pencil-sketches andphotography todesign s for curtains andtechnical drawing s. Every issue has a special item like aleporello with selfportraits ofAad Donker on a long strip of paper [Tortuca 8, MCMXCIX, p.51] , thetombstone of Rainer Maria Rilke's grave with twelve translations of his 'untranslatable'epitaph [Tortuca 10, MM, p.25] or a removablebooklet withlyrics byValentin Silvestrov [Tortuca 14, MMII, p.20] .Tortuca is also the
publisher of Testudo (novel s, [translated-]poetry , short stories andprose ), Tortuca Cahier (short stories,theatre plays, or exceptional subjects) and Tortuca Vestzak (miniature books).External links
* http://www.tortuca.com
* http://www.xs4all.nl/~adcs/NatBl/NatBl06.html#Tortuca
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