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• 15/09/2020

POETS OF THE FUTURE”

Online roundtable focused on modern European poetry.

Friday October 16 at 8 pm CEST

Live on Social Media - Facebook

In partnership with VERSOPOLIS

A panel with young voices, poets and authors who are experimenting with the boundaries of the written word, who are looking for new ways to reach their public. Broadcasted live via social media (via Facebook live) from the four corners of Europe, the discussion will revolve among others around the possibility of engaging the young audiences socially and politically. The closing event of the 10th edition of the festival explores creative poetry forms and celebrates young poets of the future.

With:

Caroline SIMON - an arts student and poet with a free, engaged, and spiky tone, Simon is regularly featured in a Belgian poetry reviews, and a part of the Anthology of Young Luxemburgish Poets. She has toured the Grande Region as part of a reading tour and function as Luxemburgish poet in residence at the Printemps poétique transfrontalier in 2019.

Katja GOREČAN - a poet with a flair for dramaturgy, Gorečan is a young award-winning poet, recognised for her efforts in the biennale of Young Artists from Mediterranean Europe. Asides from her artistic work, Gorečan is socially active, working with the elderly people other marginalised groups, through different creative workshops.

Iona LEE - a widely published Scottish poet, illustrator and spoken word performer, Lee has made several apparitions on television and radio. Recognised internationally, Lee has performed her work all over the United Kingdom and Europe and even represented Scotland at the 2016 World Slam Championship in Paris. Lee is also the leader of a beat poetry band called Acolyte.

Maxime GARCIA DIAZ - a Dutch poet living in Amsterdam, Garcia Diaz writes about the Internet, bodies and sad girls as resistance fighters.  In 2018, she toured Flanders and the Netherlands with the Poetry Bus and won the 2019 Dutch Poetry Slam Championship. Additionally, Garcia Diaz has a newsletter where she shares her work and thoughts.

Stephen SEXTON - a productive and creative voice, Sexton has been widely published in Europe and the US, had has authored several award-winning poems and poetry collections. Asides from his poetry, Sexton has contributed to documentaries on BBC Radio Four and been featured on BBC Radio Three, and has performed his work from Athens to San Francisco.

 

Moderator: Aleš Šteger, Slovenian poet, writer, editor and literary critic.