European Poetry Festival 2026

Our 9th summer festival is completed! Winter festival events upcoming in Manchester, Liverpool and London

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 at the links below, all of which were free to attend.

Poster by Babak Safari