| | | | Latest news about Poetry International - June 2021
11 - 13 June 2021 | Tickets on sale | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | After skipping a year, the Poetry International Festival is back with its delayed 51st edition. From the 11th until the 13th of June 2021, Poetry International will take residence in LantarenVenster, Theater Walhalla and Verhalenhuis Belvédère in Rotterdam. Dutch theatres are re-opening and Poetry International is one of the first festivals in the Netherlands to be allowed to welcome audiences to indoor events again!
This 2021 edition will be a hybrid festival: indoor, open-air and online! All the events will be livestreamed. For an entire weekend you can enjoy performances, talkshows, meetings, workshops and livestreams, featuring established poets, inspiring young talents, spoken word-artists, and adventurous wordsmiths. Enjoy innovative, interdisciplinary poetry from the Netherlands and abroad! Most of events will be spoken or translated into English. So language is no problem.
Tickets for all the events at LantarenVenster and Kantine Walhalla and online are on sale via our website. Either way, online or at the venue, we look forward to seeing you very soon at Poetry International Festival 2021. | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The theme of this year’s festival is ‘What You Will Hear is True’. Through this theme and the appearances of guest poets, the festival hopes to combat the ‘violence’ being done to the truth by the stream of supposed certainties, lies, framing and alternative truths with which we are constantly confronted in conventional and social media. The language employed by the engaged poets appearing at this year’s festival allows room for ambiguity, different perspectives and doubt. Their poems address the social issues of today.
Dutch poets Anne Vegter, Ellen Deckwitz, Alfred Schaffer, Radna Fabias and Bernke Klein Zandvoort are appearing, as well as Carolyn Forché (United States), Kim Hyesoon (South Korea), Maren Kames (Germany), Peter Verhelst and Paul Demets (Belgium), Ronelda Kamfer (South Africa), Raymond Antrobus and Vanessa Kisuule (Great Britain), Samantha Barendson (France) and Juana Adcock (UK/Mexico).
They will be joined by the Klimaatdichters in a special programme on climate poetry. There will also be special focuses on the ‘female perspective’ and ‘poetry in sign language’. And finally, of course, the C. Buddingh’ Prize and the Brockway Prize will be awarded on 11 and 12 June respectively.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The festival opens on Friday 11 June at LantarenVenster, with the world première of Tagelyk, a music and poetry production created by Frisian poet Nyk de Vries and the Artvark Saxophone Quartet. On Saturday evening the performance can be seen live at Kantine Walhalla. Book your tickets to see this unique production in the flesh. | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One very special guest at this year’s festival is British poet Raymond Antrobus. The poet was born deaf and, although his condition is now partially relieved by hearing aids, deafness has coloured his experience of the world and his poetry. Antrobus will give a number of performances during the festival. In the 'Investigator of missing sounds' programme, he will engage in an in-depth discussion of his work and the influence of deafness on his poetry and life. An interesting programme for everybody, whatever their hearing status. A simultaneous interpreter will translate the programme from English into Dutch sign language. | | | |
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