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May 16, 2012 The theme of the festival this year is ‘The Incomplete’, and during the week we will be addressing questions such as whether a poem is ever truly finished. Special events during the festival will include discussions of Friederike Mayröcker’s unwritten work, the fragmentary surviving poems of Sappho, the literary space of Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett’s final poem ‘Comment dire’. There will be interviews with many of the twenty international guest poets, and plenty of poetry readings which will be live-streamed on this website. You'll find more information about this year’s festival, including biographies of all the festival poets, on the Festival 2012 pages.

The Poetry Collection is our archive, featuring thousands of poets, articles and poems from over 80 countries, including audio and video recordings of poets reading their work, as well as translations into English and Dutch. With new poets and poetry being published all the time, this new website is an ever-growing, dynamic resource of international poetry, which will never be truly finished.