Kees Stip

Cornelis Jan (Kees) Stip (Veenendaal, August 25, 1913 – Winschoten, June 27, 2001) was a Dutch epigram poet.

In 1950, Stip composed a poem collection, Vijf variaties op een misverstand ("Five variations on a misunderstanding"), about the misadventures of Pyramus en Thisbe, in the style of five Dutch authors: Speenhoff, Jan Prins, Nijhoff, Gorter, and Vondel.

From 1951 onwards, he wrote under the pen name Trijntje Fop (borrowed from one of the poem-writing classmates of Woutertje Pieterse) animal poems for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant.

Possibly the most famous Trijntje Fop poem is Op een bok ("on a billy goat") from the collection Het Grote Beestenfeest.

This verse has its own statue, the Siddebuurster bok, in the Dutch town of Siddeburen since 1978, with the poem on its pedestal.

[4] In 1985, the literary magazine De tweede ronde ("the second round") founded the Kees Stip Prijs for light verse.