Delphine Lecompte debuted in 2004 in America with Kittens in the Boiler, a novel that earned her comparisons with authors such as Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller. The book proved to be a preliminary study. All the themes it features were explored in further detail in her later poetry. Her first collection of poems De dieren in mij [The Animals Inside Me] was awarded the C. Buddingh' prize in 2010 and the Prize for Literature in West Flanders in 2011. In 2010, Verzonnen prooi [Invented Prey] was published, but her third collection of poems, Blinde gedichten [Blind Verses], was acclaimed as her first ambitious, mature publication. Readers of her poetry will be pleasantly surprised by the crazy twisted paths over which the poems lead them.