Poetry International Archives News
- July 29 2021 | |
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| | Enjoy the Poetry International Festival 2021
What are you doing this summer? We are enjoying our holidays and looking back on the 51st Poetry International Festival that took place in June. Three wonderful days filled with performances, talkshows, workshops and livestreams, featuring established poets from all over the world, and inspiring young talents and spoken word-artists. Innovative, interdisciplinary poetry from the Netherlands and abroad. Did you miss the festival or do you want to watch the programmes and read the poems? Scroll below and enjoy! | |
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| | | | Watch the aftermovie of Poetry International Festival 2021. Are you already excited about the next edition in June 2022? | |
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| | Carolyn Forché (United States, 1950)
A key role in the programme of Poetry International Festival 2021 was reserved for the poet to whom we owe the theme of this year’s festival: Carolyn Forché. Her work reflects her concerns about human rights. In 2019, her memoir What You Have Heard Is True was published, about her experiences in the civil war in El Salvador.
>> Read and listen to her poems
>> Watch her poetry reading and conversation with Juana Adcock and Alfred Schaffer about the role of poetry in today's society. | | | |
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| | Ronelda Kamfer (South Africa, 1981)
Ronelda Kamfer writes multilayered poetry of great immediacy that is deeply rooted in the harsh everyday reality of life in South Africa. Chinatown is a highly personal collection about the abuse Kamfer suffered at the hands of her father is as unsettling and uncompromising as it is poetically rich in both word and images.
>> Read and listen to her poems
>> Watch her poetry reading and talk with Alfred Schaffer at the festival. | | | |
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