Open Eye Gallery: European Poetry Festival: Liverpool Camarade

The European Poetry Festival returns this summer with a dozen free events, as poets from nations across our continent, and across the UK, come together for one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in Britain. Celebrating collaboration, literary liveness and cross-linguistic inventiveness, our events at National Poetry Library, National Centre for Writing, Rich Mix, Kingston University Town House and more, are renowned for their energy, community and dynamic performative originality. This year the festival will be visited by poets from Catalonia, Flanders, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Latvia, Norway and many other nationalities, and the festival will once again be entirely collaborative, with new works presented as premieres, made, for the events, by visiting poets and their UK-based counterparts.

Come along to the first event in the Liverpool Poetry Space programme for 2024, an evening of live poetry including some of the most exciting poets from Norway, Czech Republic and North West England. The European Poetry Festival brings its unique collaborative, performative, playful literary stylings to Liverpool. This event will see pairs of poets present brand new works of live literature, made for the night, and drawing upon the local Liverpudlian poetry scene as well as visiting poets from across Europe. Featuring

• Tim Postovit and Sarah Dawson

• Ane Thon Knutsen and Angie Butler

• Vilde Bjerke Torset and Michael Sutton

• Steven J. Fowler and Tom Jenks

• Thor Magnus Tangerås and Stephen Sunderland

• Julia Rose Lewis and Sarah-Clare Conlon

• Ondřej Macl and poet to be announced

An event in partnership with Liverpool Poetry Space. Event curated by SJ Fowler and Chris McCabe.