European Poetry Festival 2026
June 17th - July 4th
The EPF returns for it’s 9th year with a summer festival of events celebrating collaboration, literary liveness and cross-linguistic inventiveness. Over 100 poets, many visiting from across Europe, will present new works at a series of ‘Camarade’ events. Celebrating the poetry of Cyprus, Switzerland, Estonia, Austria, Poland, Latvia and more, these communal, playful, energetic events are free to attend. See below for that which is confirmed so far, with more to be announced soon, and many more poets too.
The Summer Festival
June Thurs 18th - Cypriot Poetry celebration at Cypriot High Commission, London
June Sat 20th - Swiss Poetry celebration at Hundred Years Gallery, London
June Weds 24th - Estonian Poetry celebration at National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre
June Thurs 25th - Austrian Poetry celebration at Austrian Cultural Forum, London
June Sat 27th - Polish Poetry celebration at Hundred Years Gallery, London
July Weds 1st - Latvian Poetry celebration at National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre
The Winter Festival
October Sat 3rd - EPF : The Manchester Camarade at Manchester Poetry Library
October Sun 4th - EPF : The Liverpool Camarade at Open Eye Gallery
Previous events in 2026
European Poetry Festival June 18th - July 6th 2025
The EPF summer festival saw 11 events with over 100 performances and nearly 1000 people in attendance. In our 8th year, the EPF was once again was a brilliant, intense, playful series of events, centred around collaboration, literary liveness and experimentation - a continuation of one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in Britain. Over 150 poets, many visiting from across Europe, presented new works at a series of ‘Camarade’ events.
Celebrating the poetry of Latvia, Flanders, Lithuania, Cyprus, Austria, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and more, these communal, innovative, energetic happenings saw many brilliant poet duets premiere their collaborative performances at venues such as the National Poetry Library, National Centre for Writing, The Poetry Society, Open Eye Gallery and beyond.
Please click on the images below to find out more about each event, with photographs and every performance available to watch on youtube.
