Versopolis at Frankfurt Book Fair

© Frankfurter Buchmesse/ Photo Anett Weirauch
Dear Versopolis Readers,


Versopolis came to life in 2014 as a European platform for poetry with a vision to create opportunities for (emerging) European poets, build bridges between cultures and languages, celebrate poetry while empowering poets and their associations to connect with the world.

Over the years Versopolis has built a poetry network bringing together 30 European poetry festivals and supporting 320 poets writing in 32 different languages. Versopolis means moving people poetically!

An unusual long intro to tell you that Versopolis will be present at next week's Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest trade fair for books!

On this occasion the fair's visitors have the wonderful opportunity to meet three poetic voices from our European platform and to experience their poetry in different languages: Martin Piekar (Germany), Nina Dragičević (Slovenia) and Gaia Ginevra Giorgi (Italy). The conversation with the poets about their work, what changes they have to face in poetry today and how poetry moves people and the world is moderated by, poet himself, José F.A. Oliver.

Be Versopolis' guest at the event organized by VERSOPOLIS and OPEN BOOKS on October 22, 2022, 4:00 p.m. in the Haus am Dom (Domplatz 3, 60311 Frankfurt a.M) and let the poetry move you.

Below in this mailing find out more on the presented poetesses and poets, three out of many from the Versopolis database.

Best in the meantime,
your VERSOPOLIS team
FRANKFURT BOOK Fair
October, 19-23, 2022

Frankfurt Book Fair, Photo: Marc JacqueminOPEN BOOKS
Be Versopolis' guest at the event organized by Versopolis and OPEN BOOKS on
October 22, 2022, 4:00 p.m. in the Haus am Dom (Domplatz 3, 60311 Frankfurt a.M)
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© Frankfurter Buchmesse, photo: Fernando BaptistaVERSOPOLIS AUTHORSat Frankfurt Book Fair
Oct. 19-23, 2022

© Alexander Paul EnglertMartin Piekar
Germany

Martin Piekar was born to Polish parents in Germany in 1990. In 2012, he won the Open Mike award for poetry and has since received several distinctions for his worklike Irseer Pegasus and Alfred-Gruber-Preis, both 2018. His first volume of poems titled “Bastard Echo” was published by Verlagshaus Berlin in 2014 and was followed by his second volume “AmokperVers” in 2018. Martin Piekars poetry crosses intercultural boundaries, emotionally grapples with personal development and explores the possibilities of subjectivity in a political realm.
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© BeletrinaGaia Ginevra Giorgi
Italy

Gaia Ginevra Giorgi was born in Alessandria, in 1992. She graduated in Philosophy, studying at the University of Turin. After years of experimentation, in literature and music, in march 2016, published by Alter Ego Edizioni her first poetic work: “Sisifo”, book and, in the same time, itinerant performance poetry voiced. Now she's studying theater at the School of Theater of Bologna “Alessandria Galante Garrone”.

On the one hand, the most noticeable of Gaia Ginevra Giorgi's characteristics is the investigation of musicality, and, on the other hand, the mix between the rural and urban landscapes (although the contrast between the last two isn't inevitable). Thus, these aspects join together and the result is an expressionist lyricism – a style, of course, relatable to the Crepuscolars and their topoi but, at the same time, not with the most mournful tones of these authors.
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© SKICA BerlinNina Dragičević
Slovenia

Nina Dragičević is a poet, writer, and a sound artist. She holds a PhD in Sociology.
Nina is the author of five books: Kdo ima druge skrbi (2014), Slavne neznane: Zvočne umetnice v konstrukciji družbe (2016, en. Famous Unknowns: Women sound artists in construction of society), Med njima je glasba: Glasba v konstrukciji lezbične scene (2017, en. The music between them: Music in construction of lesbian communities), Ljubav reče greva (2019), and To telo, pokončno (2021). Her texts were translated into English, German, Portuguese, Serbian, Czech, Croatian, and Spanish.

Nina is a member of the Slovenian Writers’ Association and PEN Slovenia. She is the author of numerous electroacoustic compositions and sound installations. In 2016 her album Parallellax (Kamizdat Records) was released, and her second album Ma’am there is no such thing in reality came out in 2019 on the same label. Her sound works were presented at Spektrum (Berlin), Kapelica Gallery, ŠKUC Gallery, Sajeta Art & Music Festival, Cirkulacija2, Slovenian Writers’ Association, AKC Metelkova, Tovarna Rog, Radio Slovenia, Radio Študent etc.
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