V COUNTRY (IRISH V POEM)
Peter Holvoet-Hanssen
Cloud formations are on the move in constantly changing shapes
look, a dog stretches out its
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Peter Holvoet-Hanssen
Cloud formations are on the move in constantly changing shapes
look, a dog stretches out its
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VACANCIES
Durs Grünbein
The next day the bay seemed tamed.
Butterflies, correspondents from dry land,
cavorted
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Durs Grünbein
The next day the bay seemed tamed.
Butterflies, correspondents from dry land,
cavorted
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VALENÇAY
Sergio Raimondi
Paying for identity. Paying for tradition.
The French State pays when it
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Sergio Raimondi
Paying for identity. Paying for tradition.
The French State pays when it
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VALIUM
Uroš Zupan
The world is in slow motion, in tune with the morning steps.
Sluggishly it adheres to my soles.
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Uroš Zupan
The world is in slow motion, in tune with the morning steps.
Sluggishly it adheres to my soles.
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VALLEY OF LIGHT
Yosuke Tanaka
As I approached the end of the summer range,
I came to a valley I had no choice but to cross.
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Yosuke Tanaka
As I approached the end of the summer range,
I came to a valley I had no choice but to cross.
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VANITAS
Micha Hamel
Happy adults and shrinking grandparents in perfect health wave off
the others. The airplane
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Micha Hamel
Happy adults and shrinking grandparents in perfect health wave off
the others. The airplane
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VASE
Peter Verhelst
Can you blame a vase for its fragility
or a hand for breaking the vase?
Maybe it is
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Peter Verhelst
Can you blame a vase for its fragility
or a hand for breaking the vase?
Maybe it is
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VÄXJÖ
Charlotte Van den Broeck
There’s a lightness in the air that wrings.
We look like kids washed up in the
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Charlotte Van den Broeck
There’s a lightness in the air that wrings.
We look like kids washed up in the
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VEIL OF RELIGIONS
Amal al-Jubouri
If you are One
and your teachings are One
why did you inscribe our infancy in the
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Amal al-Jubouri
If you are One
and your teachings are One
why did you inscribe our infancy in the
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VENICE
Borben Vladović
Numbed in front of the harbour
still salty from the Atlantic Ocean waves,
like a nose peeled
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Borben Vladović
Numbed in front of the harbour
still salty from the Atlantic Ocean waves,
like a nose peeled
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VENTRILOQUY
Hsia Yü (Xia Yu)
I walk into the wrong room
And miss my own wedding.
Through the only hole in the wall I
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Hsia Yü (Xia Yu)
I walk into the wrong room
And miss my own wedding.
Through the only hole in the wall I
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VENUS’ HILL
Sibila Petlevski
If you dared to cover my open eyes with your palms,
I would see Venus’ hill on your hand and
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Sibila Petlevski
If you dared to cover my open eyes with your palms,
I would see Venus’ hill on your hand and
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VERBUM SAPIENTI, TO DAMAYANTI
Udaya Narayana Singh
By the riverbank
lie many men
limbless
splayed;
weak mean who have only
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Udaya Narayana Singh
By the riverbank
lie many men
limbless
splayed;
weak mean who have only
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VERKLÄRTE NACHT
Leonard Nolens
We are sitting naked at table. Your eyes light up the room.
Luminescent, your butterfly hands
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Leonard Nolens
We are sitting naked at table. Your eyes light up the room.
Luminescent, your butterfly hands
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VERMEER
Anka Zagar
she has come in from all sides
into the water that makes you from all sides
alone wanting
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Anka Zagar
she has come in from all sides
into the water that makes you from all sides
alone wanting
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VERSE COMES FROM THE NIGHT
Fernando Charry Lara
In the city of mist the feast
Of nights is a wood
Of dark heads of hair and stars.
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Fernando Charry Lara
In the city of mist the feast
Of nights is a wood
Of dark heads of hair and stars.
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VERSES ON A VILLAGE BREW
Tatsuji Miyoshi
The day has ended
The day has ended. Fill your
own sake-cup, the rest is all in
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Tatsuji Miyoshi
The day has ended
The day has ended. Fill your
own sake-cup, the rest is all in
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VERSES ON POETRY
Dileep Jhaveri
1
At times it happens
That pen touches paper
And the stars leap up but
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Dileep Jhaveri
1
At times it happens
That pen touches paper
And the stars leap up but
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VERSES, 2
Titos Patríkios
Verses that howl
verses that rise, as if they’re bayonets
verses that threaten the
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Titos Patríkios
Verses that howl
verses that rise, as if they’re bayonets
verses that threaten the
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VERSION OF CREATION
Kiki Dimoula
I’m listed, said chaos to the contractors.
Inside, things have to remain as they are.
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Kiki Dimoula
I’m listed, said chaos to the contractors.
Inside, things have to remain as they are.
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VERTIGO
Dorta Jagić
on the first day of our training
you swung the trapeze for two astronauts under our
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Dorta Jagić
on the first day of our training
you swung the trapeze for two astronauts under our
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VESSELS
Kiji Kutani
Something warm and moist
like the palm of a great hand
deliberately stroked
the
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Kiji Kutani
Something warm and moist
like the palm of a great hand
deliberately stroked
the
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VIATICUM
Nuno Júdice
They recognize each other at night by the voice, by
their breathing, by a dark tenderness of
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Nuno Júdice
They recognize each other at night by the voice, by
their breathing, by a dark tenderness of
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VICE VERSA
Luz Helena Cordero
Fear of war, of emptiness, of the mirror,
of the hatred of men, of tedium,
of the habit
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Luz Helena Cordero
Fear of war, of emptiness, of the mirror,
of the hatred of men, of tedium,
of the habit
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VIEW OF THE FUTURE
J. Bernlef
When they pass away some poets
want the light to die when they go
for the world to
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J. Bernlef
When they pass away some poets
want the light to die when they go
for the world to
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VIEW ONTO A COURTYARD - 10
José Miguel Silva
An ardent fan of period films, childhood
skips up the cinema staircase, heart aflutter,
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José Miguel Silva
An ardent fan of period films, childhood
skips up the cinema staircase, heart aflutter,
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VIGIL
Stefano Dal Bianco
The road is paved,
black like the reflection of the earth around it
like the foliage of
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Stefano Dal Bianco
The road is paved,
black like the reflection of the earth around it
like the foliage of
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VIGILANT
Maarten Inghels
The poet should be ever
vigilant, be above all tender.
Be willing to always fall from
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Maarten Inghels
The poet should be ever
vigilant, be above all tender.
Be willing to always fall from
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VIII
Alberto Vélez
Today I saw a photograph in which
You wear a hat, rolled-up trousers, and carry a fishing
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Alberto Vélez
Today I saw a photograph in which
You wear a hat, rolled-up trousers, and carry a fishing
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VILLA QUIETA
Cristóbal Joannon
Now housing starts are coming to Lampa,
chickens feeding in the ultraviolet
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Cristóbal Joannon
Now housing starts are coming to Lampa,
chickens feeding in the ultraviolet
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VILLAGE
Roland Jooris
a village is a circle
drawn by hand
around a church;
a dove is a very
simple line
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Roland Jooris
a village is a circle
drawn by hand
around a church;
a dove is a very
simple line
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VILLAGE OF DELIRIUM
Rafael Patiño
Who says tongue oh so sovereign fleece
I will not tell you an acephalous verb
But a raucous
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Rafael Patiño
Who says tongue oh so sovereign fleece
I will not tell you an acephalous verb
But a raucous
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VIRGIL
Tomaž Šalamun
All this blinking, gurgling, sweet stinking
decadent soul-racked sorrel,
the love of
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Tomaž Šalamun
All this blinking, gurgling, sweet stinking
decadent soul-racked sorrel,
the love of
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VIRUS WRITING
Kamran Mir Hazar
1.
Writing viruses
And electronic labyrinths
With a blackout and no computer
In
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Kamran Mir Hazar
1.
Writing viruses
And electronic labyrinths
With a blackout and no computer
In
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VISA
Lucas Malan
The murmur of the sea in a shell
is in truth – as we all know – the echo
of the push
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Lucas Malan
The murmur of the sea in a shell
is in truth – as we all know – the echo
of the push
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VISIONARY EULOGY (PART 1)
Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
It happens that my soul quivers before your wavelike presence
So in evenings
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Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
It happens that my soul quivers before your wavelike presence
So in evenings
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VISIONARY EULOGY (PART 2)
Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
I am no object of desire of yours . . .
The blades of my soul
Are
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Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
I am no object of desire of yours . . .
The blades of my soul
Are
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VISIONARY EULOGY (PART 3)
Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
Remember I was obedient to your deep kisses
My nights were not only ash
I
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Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
Remember I was obedient to your deep kisses
My nights were not only ash
I
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VISIONARY EULOGY (PART 4)
Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
Suppose you are a mutilated idea
Floating in the kingdom of Air
Arranged
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Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
Suppose you are a mutilated idea
Floating in the kingdom of Air
Arranged
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VISIONARY EULOGY (PART 5)
Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
Rarely did I whisper my erotic poems to you . . .
A single eyelash twitch
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Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
Rarely did I whisper my erotic poems to you . . .
A single eyelash twitch
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VISIONARY EULOGY (PART 6)
Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
Do not torture me anymore
I do not carry Diogenes’ lamp in daylight
But I
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Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
Do not torture me anymore
I do not carry Diogenes’ lamp in daylight
But I
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VISIONARY EULOGY (PART 7)
Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
A fire fiercer than the glow
Of passionate hearts
Erupts volcano-like into
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Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
A fire fiercer than the glow
Of passionate hearts
Erupts volcano-like into
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VISIONARY EULOGY (PART 8)
Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
“The only good that looks like gold is . . . the road”
So said
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Amina El Bakouri
Oswaldo
“The only good that looks like gold is . . . the road”
So said
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VISIT NO. 12 618
Maarten Inghels
To make it go more quiet in the room than in her blood:
hammer the beating beetle from the
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Maarten Inghels
To make it go more quiet in the room than in her blood:
hammer the beating beetle from the
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VISIT NO. 12 627
Maarten Inghels
It’s freezing in this heart. She has skated loops into a scarf
that has knotted round my
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Maarten Inghels
It’s freezing in this heart. She has skated loops into a scarf
that has knotted round my
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VISITING CARD
María Mercedes Carranza
The world is that which I look at:
the table that gathers upon it
banal things such
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María Mercedes Carranza
The world is that which I look at:
the table that gathers upon it
banal things such
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VISTA
George Mario Angel Quintero
The tree’s pale loneliness
against the sky’s blue.
Apart, in this sea
of surfaceless
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George Mario Angel Quintero
The tree’s pale loneliness
against the sky’s blue.
Apart, in this sea
of surfaceless
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VITA BREVIS
Durs Grünbein
In a rotten nutshell, I grew up amid the barrenness and confusion
That lie in wait for
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Durs Grünbein
In a rotten nutshell, I grew up amid the barrenness and confusion
That lie in wait for
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VITA CONTEMPLATIVA
Adam Zagajewski
It may already be September. I drank tasteless coffee
in the café garden of the
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Adam Zagajewski
It may already be September. I drank tasteless coffee
in the café garden of the
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VLADIMIR HOROWITZ
Tom Van de Voorde
Go on, sing, you arsehole,
scratch your brownest wart
Let Scriabin ejaculate
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Tom Van de Voorde
Go on, sing, you arsehole,
scratch your brownest wart
Let Scriabin ejaculate
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VLADY NIKITIN
Mykola Ryabchuk
(from Epitaphs)
Vlady Nikitin died
from the same cause
but twice as
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Mykola Ryabchuk
(from Epitaphs)
Vlady Nikitin died
from the same cause
but twice as
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VOCABULARY LIST CHAPTER 1
Toshio Nakae
Ceremony. Gathering.
Very.
Bad man.
To bind.
Lips. Mouth. Curse.
To
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Toshio Nakae
Ceremony. Gathering.
Very.
Bad man.
To bind.
Lips. Mouth. Curse.
To
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VOICE
Anna Enquist
I slid the cradle under the piano,
covered her with Bach and Ravel,
sang Otis Redding,
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Anna Enquist
I slid the cradle under the piano,
covered her with Bach and Ravel,
sang Otis Redding,
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VOICE FLEECE
Thomas Kling
of course everything’s wet through; slick
with wetness, from all the showings, from the
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Thomas Kling
of course everything’s wet through; slick
with wetness, from all the showings, from the
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VOICE FROM A STONE
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos
I don’t adore the past
I’m not three times a master
I made no pact with the
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Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos
I don’t adore the past
I’m not three times a master
I made no pact with the
...
VOICELESS CHAMBERS
Najwan Darwish
He is hung now on a piece of wood
and all I can do is scream
in these chambers no voice
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Najwan Darwish
He is hung now on a piece of wood
and all I can do is scream
in these chambers no voice
...
VOICES
Amarjit Chandan
I hear voices:
Mother says something and laughs.
There’s a lump in my father’s throat as
...
Amarjit Chandan
I hear voices:
Mother says something and laughs.
There’s a lump in my father’s throat as
...
VOICES
Carlos López Degregori
Someone comes to your room tonight and says into your ear: get up, I’ve come for you.
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Carlos López Degregori
Someone comes to your room tonight and says into your ear: get up, I’ve come for you.
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POEM
Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
Marley was rocking on the transport's stereo and the beauty was humming the …
ARTICLE
48th Poetry International Festival Rotterdam
The 48th Poetry International Festival kicks off on Tuesday May 30, with an opening …
POET
Massimo Morasso
Antoinette Sisto
Massimo Morasso (Genova, 1964) graduated in Modern Languages at the University of …
ARTICLE
Poetry translation project open to all levels
In Other Words 2017
Poetry translation project open to all levels
From 30 May till 4 June, Poetry International will bring approximately 20 of the …
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