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Dear Versopolis friends,welcome to the latest edition of the Versopolis newsletter! In this issue, we're excited to announce Versopolis opening for the European Poetry Festival 2023 in London. Plus, we're proud to showcase two new articles from our talented authors of the week hailing from Portugal. As spring blooms across Europe, we're also gearing up for several upcoming poetry festivals in Central Europe. And don't miss the chance to read memories shared by Versopolis poetesses from their recent attendance at the Ars Poetica festival in Bratislava. Keep reading for more news, updates, and exciting poetry from around the world!
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your Versopolis teamEuropean Poetry Festival 2023Versopolis at the opening nightWhat better way to kick off the European Poetry Festival 2023 in London, especially during one of the biggest book fairs in the city - London Book Fair, than with a Versopolis event?
The EPF returns in April 19th for one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in the UK. Eleven events over three weeks will see over one hundred poets from across the continent and the UK come together for a celebration of liveness, collaboration and cross-linguistic collective inventiveness.
The opening night will be a special Camarade event, where Versopolis poets from across the UK and visiting from multiple nations present new works made with poet pairs - a series of premiere performances of literary and experimental poetry. Peter Zavada, Aušra Kaziliūnaitė, Billy Ramsell and Aljaž Koprivnikar will represent the orange colours.
Throughout the European Poetry Festival 2023 there will be appearances by other poets who have participated in the Versopolis project including Zuzana Husarova on April 22nd, Laura Accerboni and Sascha Garzetti on April 26th, Eduard Escoffet and Tomica Bajsic on April 29th, Dominique de Groen on May 4th, Maria Barnas on May 6th, and many more.
If you're in London, come see us at the brilliant Iklectik Artlab in Waterloo.
The hand that moves usIt is impossible to be a poet, or an artist in general, without reflecting on the times in which we live. And that implies looking not only at what surrounds us, the problems, the faults and failings of humanity, but also at others who inhabit the same space of creative responsibility, our contemporaries, in the sense that they are alive at the same time as we are. >> Read articleThe power of the word
Poetic performance throughout timesPoetic performance has the enormous power to bring the new and the old, forgotten and unknown poets closer to an increasingly attentive and dedicated audience. It brings poetry closer to everyday life. In short: it is the poetry of proximity.>> Read article
>> Find the upcoming festivals
"My experience of Ars Poetica festival: huge and warm energy of its’ director and poet Martin Solotruk, love for the experimental merging of poetry and music, poetry and performance; warm and engaged audience, so many poetry lovers. Never had I been for such a short time somewhere while having so many fantastic impressions on where I’ve been, what I’ve been a part of or whom I’ve met", writes Versopolis poetess Ana Brnardić.
>> Stroll down their memory lane
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