Dear Versopolis Readers,

this year's Versopolis digital festival initiative "Poetry Expo 23" started successfully last week.

Find here enclosed the link to the opening event from last Monday and other highlights.

Poetry Expo 23, the world’s first digital poetry fair, organised by Versopolis and dedicated entirely to poetry, human creativity and literature, opened its doors!

With the title Connecting by poetry, creating for the future, Versopolis’s digital initiative hosts events and projects by more than 70 organisations, festivals and individuals showcasing the poetic achievements of different nations, cultures and languages throughout the months ofFebruary 2023.

Find out more at www.versopolis.com

Best,
your VERSOPOLIS team
OPENING EVENT
Video

For the inaugural event, we invited ten contemporary and distinctive poetic voices from around the world to be featured.
You are invited to come and listen to: Gail McConnell, Kristina Kočan, Paige Quiñones, Jan Wagner, Branko Čegec, Sudeep Sen, Jazra Khaleed, Pia Tafdrup, Jan Škrob and Gaia Ginevra Giorgi.
TUNE IN!HOMER MEDAL WINNER
Announcement

Announcement of 2023 Homer Medal winner, which will be held in Estonia embassy in Beijing. The winner is the poet Jaan Kaplinski (1941–2021).

Everything is inside out, everything is different –
colourless, nameless, voiceless –
the sky overhead is an axe-blade. No one knows
that what mirrors the stars and the Milky Way is an axe.
Only those who love see, and remain silent
while in the sky the mirror-blade gets loose and falls
through us, a black starry dark
falling through a blacker dark, and nothing can stop it.
It falls no matter how we turn, always,
it hits us and divides head from body.
The sound of the abyss rises like clouds through us.
Twin stars are overhead: one light, one dark.
Everything else is illimitable void and distant,
dust motes whirling through a dark cathedral, everything else
is a black shawl where the fine old fire has written our names too.
 Translated by Sam Hamill & Jaan Kaplinski
 SEE ANNOUNCMENT VIDEOPoetry Expo 23

Poetry Expo 23, the world’s first digital Versopolis fair entirely dedicated to poetry, human creativity and literature, opened its doors on 31 January! With the title Connecting by poetry, creating for future more than 70 organisations, festivals and individuals will line up until the end of February to showcase the poetic achievements of different nations, cultures and languages! Join us!

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