Over a period of forty years, the Dutch poet Frank Koenegracht (Rotterdam, 1945) published nine volumes of poetry, among which are two anthologies: De verdwijning van Leiden. Gedichten 1971- 1981 (1989) and Vroege sneeuw.Gedichten1971-2003 (2003). Both volumes contain many revised versions of the previously published poems, but both anthologies show a different tendency: whereas De verdwijning van Leiden more or less represents a momentary view of literature, Vroege sneeuw to a much greater extent shows the development in Koenegracht’s poetry. But due to the whimsicality of Koenegracht’s revisions, this tendency remains ambiguous. Next to that, the practice of revising and rewriting is also visible in individual collections of poems, such as Zwaluwstaartjes (1994) and Alles valt(1999). In what can be seen as a poetics of recycling Koenegracht uses many lexical citations, recycles fragments of earlier poems in new ones and even republishes whole poems in his new collections. This playful acting enables the reader of Koenegracht’s poetry to establish new connections between poems within the individual collections of poems and throughout the work as a whole.