The European Poetry Festival will return for it’s 8th edition June 18th to July 6th 2025.
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.
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.
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
