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Poetry International Festival poets to read at the Ortel Dunya Festival

May 28, 2009
As a preview to the 40th Poetry International Festival, which begins on 13 June, there will be a Poetry International event at the Ortel Dunya Festival in Rotterdam on Sunday 31 May.
Bas Kwakman, director of the festival, will introduce the unique CD box of archive recordings from the last 40 years of the festival (some of which you can listen to on our Sound of the Poet page. The event will also feature three poets who are to come to the festival in June: Yang Lian China/UK/New Zealand), Tua Forsström (Finland) and Umberto Fiori (Italy).

The event takes place at 16:35 in Poetry Park at the Ortel Dunya Festival in Rotterdam. More details (in Dutch) can be found on the Ortel Dunya Festival website.
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