Peter Laugesen – Walking the Tidelands by Dan Step into a truly unique setting – the Wadden Sea – as seen through the eyes of an outstanding poet, Danish Peter Laugesen, who introduces us to the landscape and to his poetic approach, where “it’s a state of mind you enter. Like the Earth breathing.” And where writing poetry becomes a way “to imitate nature in her manner of operation,” as he says. Listening to a recital by Dylan Thomas turned Peter Laugesen’s world upside down as a teenager: “It was the most profound experience. That was a huge opener. An ear-opener in this case. It turned everything in me upside down. Both mentally and bodily. I wasn’t the same afterwards. I really wasn’t.” Laugesen emphasizes the physical aspect of poetry and calls it “a bodily thing that takes over. It takes over your whole presence and turns it upside down so nothing is recognizable.” Peter Laugesen feels that “it’s something you need to feel at some time or other. No matter what you want to do, you have to experience it.”