Xavier Roelens has played an important role in the Belgian Poetry Slam scene and regularly performs his poems on stages all over the country. From 2009 until 2014 he was chief editor of the literary magazine Kluger Hans, which under his guidance became a free haven for local and international experimental literature. He organizes poetry workshops and coordinates the Schrijvers Academie, an organisation for creatrive writing. His second eco-inspired collection Stormen, olielekken, motetten (Storms, oil stains, motets, 2012) was nominated for the Herman De Coninck Prize in 2012. For Onze kinderjaren (Our Childhood Years) Xavier Roelens asked 365 people for their earliest childhood memory and made 77 poems, titled by birth year, out of these memories. The fragmentary and associative remembrances reveal a glimpse of twentieth century history, seen from the viewpoint of ordinary people, in varied literary forms. He has published the books: Er is een spookrijder gesignaleerd (A Motorist Driving Against the Traffic on the Motorway Has Been Spotted), Contact, Amsterdam/Antwerpen, 2007, Stormen, olielekken, motetten (Storms, Leaks of Oil, Motets). Contact, Amsterdam/Antwerpen, 2012, Onze kinderjaren (Our Childhood Years), Atlas Contact, Amsterdam/Antwerpen, 2018. His work has been translated in English, French, Russian and Croatian.