European Poetry Festival 2024
June 19th to July 6th
The EPF returns this summer with a dozen free events, as poets from nations across our continent, and across the UK, come together for one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in Britain. Celebrating collaboration, literary liveness and cross-linguistic inventiveness, our events at National Poetry Library, National Centre for Writing, Rich Mix, Kingston University Town House and more, are renowned for their energy, community and dynamic performative originality. This year the festival will be visited by poets from Catalunia, Flanders, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Latvia, Norway and many other nationalities, and the festival will once again be entirely collaborative, with new works presented as premieres, made, for the events, by visiting poets and their UK-based counterparts. europeanpoetryfestival.com/2024
Events confirmed as of now, April 2024, with more soon to be added. Click the link for further details :
June Weds 19th - Catalan Poetry celebration at National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre
June Thurs 20th - Flanders Poetry celebration at Flanders House, London
June Sat 22nd - Swiss Poetry celebration at Rich Mix, London
June Mon 24th - Kingston : European Camarade at Kingston University Town House
June Weds 26th - Swedish Poetry celebration at Hundred Years Gallery, London
June Thurs 27th - Austrian Poetry celebration at Austrian Cultural Forum, London
June Sat 29th - Latvian Poetry celebration at Rich Mix, London
July Weds 3rd - Norway Poetry celebration at National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre.
July Thurs 4th - Norwich : European Camarade at Dragon Hall, National Centre for Writing
July Sat 6th - Liverpool : European Camarade at Open Eye Gallery
Plus events previous to the main summer festival
European Poetry Festival 2023
EuropeanPoetryFestival.com/2023 and for our recent Winter Camarade at Rich Mix, London
15 free events and over 120 new performances to over 1000 people. A fabulous sixth year for the festival with poets from two dozens nations across our continent, and across the UK, coming together for one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in Britain. With events across the UK and on the continent, the festival championed literary liveness, collaboration and cross-linguistic inventiveness. Below, links to our primary festival events - click event links below for photographs and videos of the performances - photographs from the fest and our award winning poster for 2023, designed by Babak Safari.
EPF 2022
14 events over 3 weeks in the summer of 2022 followed by a host of Winter standalone events. Poets visiting from across our continent, presented new collaborations with British-based poets. It was an unforgettable, energised and groundbreaking celebration of literary liveness and English European inventiveness, eccentricity and experiment. Please click the links below to find out about each event or visit www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/2022
