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COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL 2013

PROGRAM:

Thursday, May 23rd:

7 PM: World Poetry Meeting

The great opening of Copenhagen International Poetry Festival 2013. The poets gather in Copenhagen and kick off for three intense days. An evening in words and music, playing listening reading talking.

ALBERTO BLANCO

BENNY ANDERSEN

HAYDAR ERGÜLEN

JULIE STEN-KNUDSEN

LYDIA LOCKETT

TONE HØDNEBØ

Grand Piano: SEMION BALSCHEM

10 PM: Poems about men

The male gender and the concept of masculinity are undergoing changes, taking new forms and forming new narratives. Are poets the first to see the outlines of the new man?

ANDREAS GREVE

DITTE STEENSBALLE

HAYDAR ERGÜLEN

LYDIA LOCKETT

10 PM: Remembering recently deceased poets

A quiet evening, where each of our poets tell of another poet, a kindred spirit or dear colleague, a great or ardent poet, who is no longer with us. We read some of his/her poems.

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

KNUD STEFFEN NIELSEN

SISSAL KAMPMANN

11.30 PM: Festival Café

A relaxed evening where we come together, while music purifies the mind and the last poems of the night fade out.

ANDREAS GREVE

KNUD STEFFEN NIELSEN

Friday, May 24th:

5-6.30 PM: Poetry by the Sea

We take a small ocean trip, or rather, a trip around the Copenhagen harbor, while we get a little tour around the World Literature, or rather, poems written by these four poets. Water rhythm, verse rhythms, sounds, lights, changing outlook. We depart from Admiral Hotel, Toldbodgade 24.

ALY STONEMAN

ANDREAS GREVE

DITTE STEENSBALLE

EDUARD ESCOFFET

5 PM: Nordic voices

In the Nordic countries we are bound together by our common history. And we have birch trees and blue eyes. Do the Nordic poets of today write Nordic poems? Come and listen for yourself at Møllegades Boghandel.

JULIE STEN-KNUDSEN

KNUD STEFFEN NIELSEN

SISSAL KAMPMANN

TONE HØDNEBØ

8 PM: Home Poetry

Why is poetry not read live in a private home? Today we do it. The intimate surroundings will give you an even more personal and close relation to the poets and to the poems. Only 10 seats in every home.

HOME 1: EDUARD ESCOFFET, GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT, JULIE STEN-KNUDSEN

HOME 2: ANDREAS GREVE, DITTE STEENSBALLE

HOME 3: KNUD STEFFEN NIELSEN, LYDIA LOCKETT

HOME 4: ALY STONEMAN, NIKOLAJ ZEUTHEN

HOME 5: HAYDAR ERGÜLEN, SISSAL KAMPMANN

HOME 6: ALBERTO BLANCO, TONE HØDNEBØ

8 PM: Poetry Films

What is by the way a poetry film. After the last 6-8-10 years poetry film has become a genre. Maybe you have never seen a poetry film but after this night you will know. Literaturwerkstatt in Berlin is running the greatest Poetry Film Festival: Zebra. Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel from Zebra will introduce a lovely row of poetry films from many countries around the world.

10 PM: Meine Heimat

Last year the Zebra Poetry Film Festival commissioned a poem by Ulrike Almut Sandig (whom you will know from Copenhagen 7th International Poetry Festival, 2012). Ulrike wrote the poem “Meine Heimat” that any poetry film maker in the world was allowed to transform into a poetry film and show at Zebra last October. You will this night see a selection of the best “Meine Heimat”-films introduced by Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel from Zebra

10 PM: FestivalCafé

A relaxed evening where we come together, while music purifies the mind and the last poems of the night fade out.

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

NIKOLAJ ZEUTHEN

Saturday, May 25th:

2 PM: Reading at Assistens Kirkegård

This reading takes place at Assistens Kirkegård before Hans Christian Andersen's grave, in the very special aura that engulfs the place. We meet at the grave. Follow the signs.

ALBERTO BLANCO

ALY STONEMAN

DITTE STEENSBALLE

TONE HØDNEBØ

4 PM: Reading at Assistens Kirkegård

This reading takes place at Assistens Kirkegård before Søren Kierkegaard's grave, in the very special aura that engulfs the place. We meet at the grave. Follow the signs.

ANDREAS GREVE

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

HAYDAR ERGÜLEN

KNUD STEFFEN NIELSEN

4 PM: The word goes round

Four poets at a coffee table. None of them have noticed the audience. What might they talk about, and what poems do they read to each other when they're alone together?

JULIE STEN-KNUDSEN

LYDIA LOCKETT

SISSAL KAMPMANN

TONE HØDNEBØ

7 PM: The word goes round

Four poets at a coffee table. None of them have noticed the audience. What might they talk about, and what poems do they read to each other when they're alone together?

ALBERTO BLANCO

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

KNUD STEFFEN NIELSEN

NIKOLAJ ZEUTHEN

7 PM: Poems about women

The feminine gender is undergoing changes, taking new forms and forming new narratives. Are poets the first to see the outlines of a new woman?

DITTE STEENSBALLE

EDUARD ESCOFFET

HAYDAR ERGÜLEN

JULIE STEN-KNUDSEN

9 PM: Poetry Party and the eighth anniversary of LiteraturHaus

After three days of hard work, the writers deserve an evening of fun and relaxation. LiteraturHaus also celebrates its eighth anniversary, and what better way to mark the occasion than letting the Poetry Festival evolve into a Poetry Party.

ALY STONEMAN

EDUARD ESCOFFET

LYDIA LOCKETT

NIKOLAJ ZEUTHEN

SISSAL KAMPMANN

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