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• 04/09/2024

TRANSPOESIE 2024: SURREALISM”

The 14th edition of the international poetry festival Transpoesie is back in full force with fresh voices, focusing
on surrealism.

TRANSPOESIE celebrates surrealist poetry and linguistic diversity in Brussels from September 26 to 28, 2O24 at the centenary of the birth of surrealism.

Delve into poetic depths where dreams, reality, and revolutionary spirit intertwine.Embrace the surrealist ethos and see how these poets shape a new world redefining humanity through aesthetic, philosophical depths, or revolutionary spirit. Be ready to encounter poets with an urge to shock, depict the fantastic, the impossible, the magic, different forms of infinite freedom, desire, and reject logical reason. Join this surrealist extravaganza from Thursday September 26 to Saturday 28 for lunchtime debates, thought provoking performances, and poetry “écriture automatique” writing sessions in the public space.

Transpoesie 2O24:

Thursday 26/O9

• 17:00 - 18:30: Citizens’ Garden: official opening of festival
• 19:00 - 21:00: Embassy of Luxembourg: Surrealism de Lux (reception with country specialities food & drink)

Friday 27/O9

• 12:00 - 14:00: Fleur en papier dorée – Goudblommeke in papier: bring your own lunch debate & reading
• 15:00 - 17:00: Royal Galleries: the Poet & the Public – a surrealist encounter
• 19:00 - 21:00: Italian Cultural Institute: Cheer & Co (reception with country specialties food & drink)

Saturday 28/O9

• 12:00 - 14:00: Fleur en papier dorée – Goudblommeke in papier: bring your own lunch debate & reading
• 15:00 - 17:00: Royal Galleries: the Poet & the Public – a surrealist encounter
• 19:00 - 21:00: Liszt Institute: A Maze Sing Words (reception with country specialties food & drink)

Poetry is popping up everywhere in the Brussels Region, on windows, doors and walls, in display cases, corridors and living rooms. Twenty participating poets share a short poem, each in their own language and in I with their own story. The poems have been translated into Dutch and French. These posters are distributed throughout the Brussels Region and bring poetry back into the public space and invite you to pause for a moment and reflect on the here and now and to wander away into poetic depths where dreams, reality and revolutionary spirit are interwoven. Some poets have an urge to shock, others seek out the fantastic, the impossible or magic. Each time, they are different forms of infinite freedom, intense desire and the rejection of logical reason.

Join in this surreal extravaganza and hang a poster on your window, door, display case, counter, hallway or garage. Give me this amalgam of languages outside/above/beside this world.

Participating poets and languages:

Noemí Rodríguez & Toni Gibert (Andorra)

Jimi Lend (Austria)

Harkaitz Cano (Basque Country - Spain)

Lupin Vivian (Channel Islands (Guernsey))

Dr Adam Perchard (Channel Islands (Jersey))

Jaan “Luulur” Malin & Rooluulend (Estonia)

Trygvi Danielsen (Faroe Islands)

Gabrielle Terpstra (Friesland)

Csenger Kertai (Hungary)

Gian Maria Annovi (Italy)

Ernestas Noreika (Lithuania)

Cosimo Suglia (Luxembourg)

Susannah Dickey (Northern Ireland)

Małgorzata Lebda (Poland)

Gabriela Ruivo (Portugal)

Radu Vancu (Romania)

Sara Búho (Spain)

Joost Oomen (The Netherlands)

Haska Shyyan (Ukraine)

Esyllt Lewi (Wales)