Let’s Start A Forest The poems in Zullen we een bos beginnen? (Shall we start a forest?) are about the magnification of a grain of sand and the diminution of the whole world at the same time. It’s about balls of socks that are mistreated in drawers, about a mother who loses so much weight that she has become a dot, and about a car that has fallen in love with its caravan.

This collection is the first result of the close cooperation between Jaap Robben and illustrator Benjamin Leroy where image and text gradually become intertwined in the creative process. As a result, readers can never trace back who came up with which idea.

Around the publication of the collection, almost 30,000 postcards were distributed with bags of tree seeds attached. On a website, you could indicate where you had planted your tree. This way, a map of a forest that grows all over the Netherlands and Belgium was created. With trees that often grow miles apart, but together form a forest.

Gedichten uit deze bundel verschenen in tal van bloemlezingen, op posters bij Plint, er werd een theatervoorstelling over gemaakt door Theatergroep Fien en bijzonder is dat het gedicht Vergeten gezichten een vaste plek heeft gekregen in de binnenstad van Venlo op een muur waar zijn overgrootouders jarenlang voorbij moeten zijn gelopen.