European Poetry Festival

The European Poetry Festival 2025
June 18th to July 6th
full program announcement coming soon

Find out more about the European Poetry Festival 2024

15 events to full houses, over 150 poets performing 100 brand new live collaborations, the European Poetry Festival charted another brilliant year, centred around our summer festival across the UK. With dozens of poets visiting from nations across our continent EPF 24 was one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in Britain. As ever before, the festival was a jubilant, innovative, communal experience - celebrating collaboration, literary liveness and cross-linguistic inventiveness. Our events at National Poetry Library, National Centre for Writing, Rich Mix, Kingston University Town House and other venues, hosted poets from Catalonia, Flanders, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Latvia, Norway and many other nationalities, all of whom presented new live poetry as premieres, made for the events, with UK-based counterparts.

Visit europeanpoetryfestival.com/2024 for more information, photographs and every single performance documented on our youtube channel. Thanks to everyone who supported, participated and attended such a wonderful year of events. Please follow along for news of our 2025 festival coming soon.

**November Sat 16th - Winter Camarade at Rich Mix**

**November Thurs 14th - Kingston : Winter Camarade**

**July Sat 6th - Liverpool : European Camarade at Open Eye Gallery**

**July Thurs 4th - Norwich : European Camarade at The Forum Auditorium, Norwich**

**July Weds 3rd - Norway Poetry celebration at National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre**

**June Sat 29th - Latvian Poetry celebration at Rich Mix, London**

**June Thurs 27th - Austrian Poetry celebration at Austrian Cultural Forum, London**

**June Weds 26th - Swedish Poetry celebration at Hundred Years Gallery, London**

**June Sat 22nd - Swiss Poetry celebration at Rich Mix, London**

**June Mon 24th - Kingston : European Camarade at Kingston University Town House**

**June Thurs 20th - Flanders Poetry celebration at Flanders House, London**

**June Weds 19th - Catalan Poetry celebration at National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre**

**March Weds 13th - Versopolis Poetry Camarade at The Poetry Society Cafe, London**

**May Thurs 2nd - Ireland : European Camarade at Riverbank Arts Centre**, **Newbridge, Kildare**

**February Thurs 15th - Norway : Oslo Camarade at Hoyskolen Kristiania**

European Poetry Festival 2023

EuropeanPoetryFestival.com/2023 and for our recent Winter Camarade at Rich Mix, London

15 free events and over 120 new performances to over 1000 people. A fabulous sixth year for the festival with poets from two dozens nations across our continent, and across the UK, coming together for one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in Britain. With events across the UK and on the continent, the festival championed literary liveness, collaboration and cross-linguistic inventiveness. Below, links to our primary festival events - click event links below for photographs and videos of the performances - photographs from the fest and our award winning poster for 2023, designed by Babak Safari.

**Dec Sat 2nd : Winter Camarade at Rich Mix**

**May Thurs 4th : Flemish Poetry in Collaboration at Kingston University, Kingston**

**May Thurs 11th : European Camarade Liverpool at Open Eye Gallery**

**May Weds 3rd : Danish Poetry in Collaboration at Hundred Years Gallery, London**

**May Weds 10th : Latvian Poetry in Collaboration at National Poetry Library, London**

**April Sat 29th : Catalan Poetry in Collaboration at Rich Mix, London**

**May Sat 6th : Dutch Poetry in Collaboration at Rich Mix, London**

**April Thurs 27th : Austrian Poetry in Collaboration at Austrian Cultural Forum**

**April 26th 2023 : Swiss Poetry at National Poetry Library**

**April Mon 24th : European Camarade Norwich at National Centre for Writing**

**April Sat 22nd : Norwegian Poetry in Collaboration at Iklectik Artlab, London**

**April Weds 19th : Versopolis Poetry Celebration at Iklectik Artlab, London**

EPF 2022

14 events over 3 weeks in the summer of 2022 followed by a host of Winter standalone events. Poets visiting from across our continent, presented new collaborations with British-based poets. It was an unforgettable, energised and groundbreaking celebration of literary liveness and English European inventiveness, eccentricity and experiment. Please click the links below to find out about each event or visit www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/2022