European Poetry Festival

04/07/2025

Let us treat you to a Swedish poetry celebration! Join us at Kingston University Town House (top floor café) at 7pm.

Performances by:
🔹Ida Börjel
🔹Andra Simons
🔹Julia Rose Lewis and Paul Hawkins
🔹Lily Ferret and Selina Giles
🔹Marcia Knight Latter and Sinnead Singson
🔹Maria Barnas and SJ Fowler
🔹Aimee Nimmo and Eleanor Wilders
🔹Danica Ignacio and Cameron Wade
🔹Alban Low and Natalie Low
🔹Bob Bright and Patrick Cosgrove
🔹Ida Börjel and Panos Ghikas
🔹Jörgen Gassilewski and Anna Hallberg
🔹Jonas Gren and Cecilia Hultman

Penrhyn Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EQ kingston.ac.uk/experience/our-campuses/penrhyn-road (The Cafe Corner room is located in the Town House building, on the 5th floor, accessible via stairs or lift.)

03/07/2025

This past week, made it to BBC Radio 4's ‘The Verb’ where SJ Fowler discussed the European Poetry Festival and read a collaborative poem with Ian McMillan (written with Latvian poet Krišjānis Zeļģis, performed at out first event, and published by Sampson Low Ltd).

You can listen it here (from 28’:05”) :

Forrest Gander, Laurie Bolger, SJ Fowler and Rachel Segal Hamilton.

30/06/2025

📸 Some photos from last week's events!
Check our website for videos of the performances.

30/06/2025

Tonight we celebrate Estonian poetry! 🇪🇪
Featuring:
▪️ Kristjan Haljak and Vik Shirley
▪️ Sveta Grigorjeva and Martina O’Shea
▪️ Mathura and Rishi Dastidar
▪️ Troy Cabida and Lottie McCrindell
▪️ Christopher Horton and Simon Tyrrell
▪️ Golnoosh Nour and Livia Franchini
▪️ Safa Khatib and Jules Sprake

at the Poetry Cafe

More info here:

An ambitious celebration of contemporary Estonian poetry at The Poetry Society Cafe, in the heart of London. Three brilliant poets - Mathura, Kristjan Haljak and Sveta Grigorjeva - visit from Estonia to present their work and brand new literary poetry and performance collaborations, made for the nig...

30/06/2025

week 3 is here!

✔️ Mon 30 June: Estonian Poetry Celebration Poetry Cafe, 7pm
✔️ Wed 2 July: Swiss Poetry Celebration National Poetry Library, 8pm
✔️ Thu 3 July: European Camarade in Norwich National Centre for Writing, 6:30pm
✔️ Fri 4 July: Swedish Poetry Celebration Kingston University, Townhouse 5th Floor Cafe, 7pm
✔️Sun 6 July: European Camarade in Liverpool Open Eye Gallery, 3pm

Check the link in the comments on how to book your tickets.

28/06/2025

It’s Norwegian poetry evening tonight!
Featuring:
▫️Vilde Bjerke Torset and Lavinia Singer
▫️Bob T.Bright
▫️Johanne Rognerud Bøe and Alma Stensrud Martin
▫️Katerina Koulouri and Agata Maslowska
▫️Katarína Krupičková and SJ Fowler
▫️Richard Marshall and Patrick Cosgrove
▫️Matt Martin and Stephen Mooney
▫️Hilde Myklebust and Hannah Kaip
▫️Thor Magnus Tangerås and David Spittle

This event celebrates contemporary Norwegian poetry, with five of that nation’s most exciting writers, both travelling in and based in the UK. New collaborations made just for this event will represent some of Norway's most innovative writers. In one of East London's most dynamic and intimate v...

26/06/2025

It’s Austrian poetry o’clock!

28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ. www.acflondon.org/events/european-poetry-festival-2025-austrian-poetry-celebration/ Please do book a free ticket to attend

26/06/2025

A wonderful evening! In case you missed our Cypriot poetry celebration, do check the photos and videos on the link below. Many thanks to Marios Theocharous and Cyprus in UK - Culture for the hospitality 🇨🇾

24/06/2025

Here comes week 2 🤩

✔️Wed 25 June: Cyprus Poetry Celebration High Commission
✔️Thurs 26 Jun: Austria Poetry Celebration austrian cultural forum london
✔️Sat 28 Jun: Norway Poetry Celebration Hundred Years Gallery

Don't forget to book your free tickets here:

The EPF returns for it’s 8th year, with eleven events celebrating collaboration, literary liveness and cross-linguistic inventiveness. 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, will present...

24/06/2025

More photos and videos from last week! Follow the link below for the performances from the Lithuanian poetry event last Saturday.
https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/lithuania25

20/06/2025

What a wonderful couple of evenings! A big thanks to all the poets for their performances 🤩
In case you missed them, here are some videos and more photos:
✨Latvian Poetry: https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/latvia25
✨ Flanders Poetry: https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/flanders25

18/06/2025

It’s Latvian Poetry night!

▫️Krišjānis Zeļģis and Steven J. Fowler
▫️Līva Marta Roze and Danica Ignacio
▫️Linda Mence and Mary Paterson
▫️Agnese Graudiņa and James Byrne

Zeļģis and Fowler’s collaborative publication ‘Levels of Care’ from Sampson Low Ltd. will also be launches tonight.