Copenhagen International Poetry Festival is back.
From Thursday the 26th to Saturday the 28th of
April we put Copenhagen on hold and celebrate
poetry. During these days, poetry will prevail in
all the city’s neglected corners and narrow book
cafes and reverberate under the wooden beams in
LiteraturHaus. From the microphones of the canal
tour, voices of poets will crackle over the city
from the sea side. At the Nørrebro cemetery, Assistens
Kirkegård, the graves of prominent Danish
writers will be sorrounded with words and voices,
and in the northwestern part of town, we will
celebrate the beautiful new library. The 26th to
the 28th of April is a piece of detached time
that belongs to you who are interested in poetry.
During the three days, you have 16 chances to
experience this abundance of enchanting poems
and poets, either at LiteraturHaus, Møllegades
Boghandel, the Spanish book-café Rayuela, Biblioteket
at Bispebjerg, the Canal Boats and Assistens
Kirkegård.
You can look forward to meeting poetry in German,
Swedish, English, Italian, Faroese, Estonian,
Polish, Turkish and Danish. Nearly every foreignlanguage
poet and nearly every Danish poet will
be available in translation at the festival.
Go on holiday from April 26th to April 28th and
take part in the International Poetry Festival at
full blast.