Austrian Poetry Celebration 2021
Nov 30th : Austrian Cultural Forum
A wonderful event of collaboration and performance to close out the EPF Winter 2021. Verena Dürr and Cornelia Hülmbauer, two of Austria’s most considerable contemporary poets, braved impending travel restrictions to anchor an event celebrating collaboration and performance in literary and experimental poetry. Supported by British based poets offering solo readings, this was a welcoming and innovative celebration of cross-genre and cross-lingual literature. with Verena Dürr and Magdalena McLean, Cornelia Hülmbauer and Ollie Evans, SJ Fowler, Inga Pizane, Stephen Watts, Lote Vilma Vītiņa, Matt Martin and Chris McCabe. with pictures below by Madeleine Rose Elliott.
European Poetry Festival Austria in London at the Austrian Cultural Forum
April Wednesday 10th 2019 : A remarkable night of performance and poetry as three of Austria’s most groundbreaking contemporary poets came to London to present brand new collaborations with Britain-based counterparts to a full house at London’s ACF.
An event that celebrated contemporary innovative Austrian poetry and potential of collaboration in literature, the collaborations featured Sophie-Carolin Wagner & Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset, Fabian Faltin & SJ Fowler, Frank Ruf & Han Smith
The evening was opened with solo readings by other European poets visiting for the festival including John Mateer, Tibor Hrs Pandur, Keti Chukhrov, Mathura, Konstantinos Papacharalampos, Maria Malinovskaya, Andreja Stepec.
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Austrian and British poets collaborate - April Thursday 12th 2018
at The Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Another full house for the European Poetry Festival in it's inaugural year, with a special focus event which paired some of the finest avant-garde and literary poets from Austria, and their British contemporaries, to present brand new collaborations made for the night. The event featured: Robert Prosser & SJ Fowler / Max Hofler & Iris Colomb / Daniela Chana & Phoebe Power
The evening was opened with brilliant solo readings by other visiting European poets including Ana Seferovic (Serbia) Claudiu Komartin (Romania) Giovanna Coppola (Italy), and Anastasia Mina & Helen Michael (Cyprus / UK) and Tatiana Faia (Portugal)
The 21st century Austrian poetry scene is one of the most dynamic in Europe - firmly connected to over a century of cutting edge literary practise, and entirely remade in the image of the new century. The three poets invited to London, in their wit, their conceptual insight and their erudition are a perfect example of one of the brightest poetic traditions in modern Europe.
This is an Austrian Cultural Forum event, curated by SJ Fowler.