European Poetry Festival 2026
June 17th - July 4th
March Weds 11th - The Versopolis Camarade at The Poetry Society, London
June Sat 6th - European Poetry Festival : Nottingham at Nottingham Contemporary
June Weds 17th - To be confirmed.
June Thurs 18th - Cypriot Poetry celebration at Cypriot High Commission, London
June Sat 20th - Swiss Poetry celebration at Hundred Years Gallery, London
June Mon 22nd - To be confirmed.
June Weds 24th - Estonian Poetry celebration at National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre
June Thurs 25th - Austrian Poetry celebration at Austrian Cultural Forum, London
June Sat 27th - Polish Poetry celebration at venue to be confirmed, London
July Weds 1st - Latvian Poetry celebration at National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre
July Thurs 2nd - To be confirmed.
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 at venues such as the National Poetry Library, National Centre for Writing, The Poetry Society, Open Eye Gallery and beyond. Another year of communal, innovative, energetic happenings, thanks to all who attended and participated. Please click on the images below to find out more about each event, with photographs and every performance available to watch on youtube.
