Swedish Poetry Celebration
October Thursday 1st 2026
Hundred Years Gallery, London
13 Pearson St, London E2 8JD hundredyearsgallery.co.uk
Swedish poetry returns to the European Poetry Festival! This Camarade event features new collaborative readings and performances, made for the night, celebrating visiting Swedish poets, Jörgen Gassilewski and Anna Hallberg. Alongside their solo readings and new works made with local poets, multiple pairs of poets will present new live literature in the literary and experimental tradition. Hosted in one of London’s most brilliant venues, this will be a brilliant night to kick off the 2026 winter edition of the European Poetry Festival. Featuring:
Jorgen Gassilewski, Anna Hallberg, Julia Rose Lewis, Tom Jenks and SJ Fowler and many more to be announced
Curated by SJ Fowler.
This is the eighth Swedish poetry celebration at the European Poetry Festival following events in 2025, 2024, 2022 and 2021, as well events (pre-festival formation) in 2017 and in Stockholm and Malmo. During the pandemic in 2020, a special collaborative poetry film was commissioned for the festival with Swedish poets too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LYcZ4Tb4xY
