The EPF summer festival returned for it’s 9th year with 9 jubilant, ambitious and expansive events celebrating collaboration, literary liveness and cross-linguistic inventiveness. Over 150 poets, many visiting from across Europe, presented new works at a series of ‘Camarade’ events, celebrating the poetry of Norway, Cyprus, Switzerland, Flanders, Estonia, Austria, Poland, Latvia, Norway and Romania.
You can watch every performance of these memorable, communal, playful and energetic events here, all of which were free to attend. www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/2026
Coming soon, with more events to be announced : The Winter Festival
Posters by Babak Safari
European Poetry Festival
June 18th - July 6th 2025
The EPF summer festival saw 11 events with over 100 performances and nearly 1000 people in attendance. In our 8th year, the EPF was once again was a brilliant, intense, playful series of events, centred around collaboration, literary liveness and experimentation - a continuation of one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in Britain. Over 150 poets, many visiting from across Europe, presented new works at a series of ‘Camarade’ events. Celebrating the poetry of Latvia, Flanders, Lithuania, Cyprus, Austria, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and more, these energetic happenings saw many brilliant poet duets premiere their collaborative performances at venues such as the National Poetry Library, National Centre for Writing, The Poetry Society, Open Eye Gallery and beyond. Please click on the images below to find out more about each event, with photographs and every performance available to watch on youtube.
