EPF : Winter 2021
The EPF burst back into live life with 7 remarkable events over 10 days celebrating collaboration and performance in contemporary literary and avant-garde European poetry. Poets from Switzerland, Norway, Hungary, Sweden, Slovenia, Latvia, Austria and all over Europe performed to packed venues across London, with nearly 500 people witnessing 60 brand new made-for-festival collaborative and commissioned readings and performances. With all events free to attend, November 20th to November 30th, this was a vibrant, jubilant, playful, experimental and energised return to in person liveness and cross-linguistic and multi-national community and collective inventiveness. Please click the images below to find out more about each event, with every performance documented on video and hosted on youtube, and remarkable photographs by Alexander Kell and Madeleine Elliott.
(see below for the Summer 2021 festival)
Austrian Poetry at ACF London : Nov 30th
Latvian Poetry at Goethe Institut : Nov 29th
Slovenian Poetry at Iklectik Art Lab : Nov 27th
Swedish Poetry at Kingston University : Nov 25th
Hungarian Poetry at The Liszt Institute : Nov 24th
Norwegian Poetry at Open Ealing : Nov 23rd
Swiss Poetry at Rich Mix : Nov 20th
EPF : Summer 2021
Our summer 2021 program presented a quartet of events in London, returning to live happenings across the city and one special event at Manchester Poetry Library. From our showcase Camarade, with 20 UK-based European poets presenting new works in pairs at St Johns on Bethnal Green, to an outdoor reading in Richmond Park and events held in collaboration with the Scottish Poetry Library, Peer Gallery and more. All events were free to attend and socially distanced.
The European Poetry Festival is curated by SJ Fowler.
