Wim Brands (1959, Brummen) is a dutch poet, journalist en presenter. Brands is active for the Dutch broadcasting organization VPRO since 1987. He produces the television programme Boek and for Radio 1 Brands met Boeken on fiction and non-finction. Brands debutes at the age of 19 in the Hollands Maandblad (Dutch monthly magazine) of K.L. Poll. His werk appeared in literary magazines and he published collections of poetry In de metro (1997), De schoenen van de buurman (1999) and Ruimtevaart (2005). His most recent collection is Neem me mee, zei de hond (2010). In 2012 his florilegium De vijftig beste gedichten van Wim Brands appeared. From september 2012 Brands produces in book store Polare (formerly Donner en De Slegte) in Rotterdam the book programme Brandsin Donner.
