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European Poetry Festival at Writers’ Centre Kingston : 2020 : 7pm - Free
www.rosetheatrekingston.org/ 24-26 High St. Kingston Upon Thames. Kt1 1hl.
A night of performance and reading as European Poetry Festival opens in 2020. World renowned poets, visiting from across Europe, present alongside European poets local to the Kingston area, as well as staff and students of Kingston University. An amazing opportunity to see a dozen exciting contemporary poets from all over Europe.
The event will see the launch of the new Sampson Low EPF publications, with new works made by Max Höfler, Robert Prosser and Franziska Füchsl. Supported by Austrian Cultural Forum.
Also performing will be Bjørn Vatne, Katerina Koulouri, Agnieszka Studzinska, Maria Celina Val, Maria Omena and Silje Ree alongside launches of the Sampson Low student publications series with Laurensia Puia and Jamie Toy.
Rounding off the evening, the prize giving ceremony for The Creative and Professional Writing Prize Event will be hosted by Sara Upstone and presented by Courttia Newland.
For the 2019 Writers’s Centre Kingston European Poetry Festival event visit https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/wck
European Poetry Festival at WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON
APRIL THURSDAY 5TH 2018 / THE ROSE THEATRE, KINGSTON
with Jen Calleja, Frederic Forte, Christodoulos Makris, Alessandro Burbank & Erik Lindner alongside Astra Papachristodoulou, Olga Kolesnikova, Synne Johnsson, Henriette Hjorthen Støren & Katerina Koulouri.
A celebration of contemporary literary and avant-garde European poetry as the closing event of Kingston University's Writers' Centre programme for 2017 / 2018.
World renowned poets visiting from Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin and Venice read alongside European poets local to the Kingston area or currently studying at Kingston University. This reading will showcase the energy and innovation so defining of 21st European poetry - an amazing opportunity to see some of the most exciting contemporary poets from all over Europe.
Writer's Centre Kingston is a founding partner of The European Poetry Festival.