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Dear Versopolis friends,
Spring has sprung, and so have our exciting literary festivals across Europe! In this edition, we'll take you on a journey through the vibrant world of Versopolis, featuring captivating highlights from recent events and a glimpse into what's to come. From enchanting poetry gatherings to thought-provoking discussions, our festivals are igniting creativity and fostering connections among writers and readers alike. Join us as we dive into the enriching experiences shared by our Versopolis authors, exploring the intersection of literature, culture, and community.
With poetic regards,
Your Versopolis teamICELANDIC LITERATURE TODAY AND TOMORROWVersopolis podcast #14Icelandic literature may be insular but is not a monolith. Even though the nationalistic movement in Iceland eliminated dialectical variation, the language is evolving in interesting ways due to an increased influx of immigrants. Dr Lara Hoffmann, a sociologist and a postdoctoral researcher, focuses on the linguistic and creative aspects of human migrations. The number of immigrants in Iceland increased nearly 5-fold in 19 years and for many, literature is one the seminal ways to retain their sense of identity and build community. Through participation in the multilingual collective and publisher Ós Pressan, writers from different cultures meet to share their prose and poetry. Also joining the podcast is Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, an Icelandic poet and writer, whose participation in the Nýhil collective helped spark the Icelandic ‘pans and pots revolution’. Although activism and poetry have fundamentally different goals, Eirikur’s poetry demonstrates that dadaistic experiments may be more effective than mere political slogans.>> Listen here
Supported by the Creative Europe programme, ArtAct is a forward-looking initiative that addresses the powerful question of how art and literature do more than reflect society - they actively shape a better future. Through its partner festivals, ArtAct has produced a variety of multidisciplinary projects, each demonstrating poetry's unique capacity to drive social change and cultivate a more engaged and empathetic society. With the release of a documentary highlighting this groundbreaking project, Versopolis warmly invites you to witness the collaborative power of our partner festivals and join us in celebrating the transformative power of the arts to effect real-world change.>> Watch documentary film
The Nobel Prize in Literature is probably the most visible, most elevated public point of intersection of the poetical and the political. It is the square, the stage of this intersection. So, let’s begin, quite arbitrarily, with the 2016 laureate – of course, a controversial one – the great Bob Dylan. It is my assertion that Dylan absolutely deserved the Nobel, if not on account of anything else then for authoring one of the truest and most universally applicable lines of all times, the gnomic and canonical The things have changed.>> Keep readingDanijel Dragojević, the flowing hand by Marija AndrijaševićI first heard of Danijel Dragojević’s iconic debut in poetry Kornjača i drugi predjeli (1961), on a bus from my hometown of Split to Zagreb, from a girl who studied Croatian language and literature. I was in my very early twenties and I visited Zagreb for concerts, book readings, theatre and sometimes even love affairs. But this time I was going to pick up my first book of poetry, fresh out of the printing press, and once and for all decide if I was brave enough to step into literature through the main door, the assembly hall of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, as a student of comparative literature who knew a foreign language.>> Keep reading
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