Poetry International Festival 2008

June 02, 2008 Poetry Clips:
Eight short portraits of Jean-Michel Espitallier,  Gerdur Kristný, Roni Margulies, Shoichiro Iwakiri, Mangalash Dabral, Togara Muzanenhamo, Robert Gray and H.H. ter Balkt.


Video recordings:
Seven complete video recordings of the international poetry programme:
Monday 9th June: Maria Barnas, Philippe Beck, James Fenton, Andrea Gibellini
Tuesday 10th June: William Cliff, Risto Oikarinen, Henk van der Waal
Tuesday 10th June: A different window on Zimbabwe
Wednesday 11th June: Maria Barnas, Shoichiro Iwakiri, Roni Margulies, Mirta Rosenberg
Wednesday 11th June: Linda Maria Baros, Mangalesh Dabral, Szabolcs Várady
Thursday 12th June: Robert Gray, Shoichiro Iwakiri, Juan Manuel Roca, Risto Oikarinen
Thursday 12th June: Remco Campert, Adam Zagajewski

Free Poetry:
The 39th Poetry International Festival experimented with a new method of payment. After watching the performances the audience was invited to donate accordingly.
If you've enjoyed watching the live broadcasts, we invite you to do the same.

For more information and the list of participating poets, please click here.
For more information on the festival programme, visit www.poetry.nl

Articles:
Articles on PIW related to the 2008 Festival:

The 39th Poetry International Festival (May 2008)
In partnership with Poetry International Festival, PIW will provide in-depth coverage of the festival each day with live broadcasts of the international poetry programmes, interviews with the poets...

The City and Country of the Mind (May 2008)
It seems unlikely that poets experience a decisive city-country split, given the dreamlike nature of poetic space, and possibly due to the metonymic presence of nature in cities, in a weed or a glimpse...

The Art of Poetry Translation (May 2008)
During the Poetry International festival each year various poetry translation projects take place. The Chinese Whispers programme is a kind of fun relay race in which a poem moves from Dutch through...

Chinese Whispers 2008 (June 2008)
In the Chinese Whispers project a Dutch poem is translated from one language to another during the course of the festival week and finally back into Dutch on the final day, with often surprising and sometimes hilarious results...

A different window on Zimbabwe (June 2008)
Zimbabwe is a country of poets. Zimbabweans write poetry, speak it and sing it in Shona, Ndebele, Tonga, Shangaan and other minority languages; we have poetry in English, praise, performance...

An Overview of Post-Independence Zimbabwean Poetry (October 2008)
An overview seeks to establish patterns that emerge from a given field. It is a mapping of the territory where beacons are placed and contours traced. In the case of Zimbabwean poetry, the stylistic and thematic...

Short Films
In connection with the festival theme ‘City and Country’ of the 39th Poetry International Festival 2008 Poetry International Web collaborated with second-year students of the department Image & Language of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, School of Arts in the Netherlands, to produce short films inspired by Indian poetry from the December 2007 ‘Places’-themed issue of the India domain of PIW. Watch the films here.

2007 Festival:
Click here for information about the 2007 Festival.

Poetry World Slampionship 2005:
Live streaming event at the 2005 Festival: the Poetry World Slampionship 2005