Elly de Waard tested the literary waters in the late 1970s with two, rather subdued, collections: Afstand (Distance) and Luwte (Shelter). Her own poetic voice broke free in Furie (Fury, 1981), an outpouring of romantic longing and passion - 'Oh, panting, singing, we wage war, / inseparably incompatible' - which caused quite a stir , not less by its explicitly erotic treatment of Lesbian love, t...