Poetry anekdotes 2
13 July 2012 by Saskia Wigbold Poetry International kenmerkt zich door de talloze legendarische optredens van nationale en …
43rd Poetry International Festival online
5 July 2012 Festival poets read their poems on camera: during the 43rd Poetry International Festival, short …
Poetry anekdotes
19 June 2012 by Saskia Wigbold Poetry International kenmerkt zich door de talloze legendarische optredens van nationale en …
Poetry translation as work-in-progress
19 June 2012 Diane Butterman translated Marije Langelaar’s poems and Saskia de Jong’s experimental …
Q&A with Jan Lauwereyns 4
17 June 2012 by Jan Lauwereyns Get inside the mind of festival poet Jan Lauwereyns.
Poetry in the most negative sense
16 June 2012 by Lisa Katz The 43rd Rotterdam Poetry International Festival is also a place of political-linguistic …
Today at the library (15 June)
16 June 2012 A round-up of The Itinerant Poetry Library’s third day at the festival
Onaf
16 June 2012 by Adriaan van der Hoeven Caj Westerberg, die ik ooit voor het poëziefestival Dichter Aan Huis vertaalde, zei me dat het …
El Estético?
16 June 2012 by Michele Hutchison According to director Bas Kwakman, the Colombians that PIF work with as part of the newly formed …
Over kameleons
15 June 2012 by Hilde Keteleer Als vertaler hoor je geen eigen stem te hebben. Een vertaler moet een kameleon zijn. Hij moet de …
Jubelbundels
15 June 2012 by Thomas Möhlmann Elk jaar levert het Rotterdamse Poetry International Festival minstens één fraai nieuw boekwerk …
Today at the library (14 June)
14 June 2012 The Itinerant Poetry Library’s second day at the festival
The sound of a poem
14 June 2012 by Dr A.G. Menon Malayalam, the mother tongue of the great Indian poet Satchidanandan, is the language of the …
‘I do not write poetry, poetry writes me’
14 June 2012 by Renato Proper De maandag voor het festival stond er een diner gepland met de festivaldichters die al aanwezig …
Today at the library (13 June)
13 June 2012 A round-up of The Itinerant Poetry Library’s first day at the festival
Restanten
13 June 2012 by Renato Proper Kijk nu al uit naar de foto’s. Na een lange, drukke, vermoeiende maar vooral inspirerende …
Q&A with Jan Lauwereyns 3
13 June 2012 by Jan Lauwereyns Get inside the mind of festival poet Jan Lauwereyns.
Interview with L.K. Holt
12 June 2012 by L.K. Holt L.K. Holt was kind enough to answer a few of our questions for the blog. We hope you enjoy reading …
Are you on the list?
12 June 2012 by Sascha Aurora Akhtar (I can count on one hand, the number Of sunny days London has had This illusion of Summer Will …
On the train
11 June 2012 by Ulrike Draesner I am sitting in a train.
Q&A with Jan Lauwereyns 2
9 June 2012 by Jan Lauwereyns Get inside the mind of festival poet Jan Lauwereyns.
The Middle
7 June 2012 by Ron Silliman It has always been true that I think a long time about something before I begin. I was calling …
Q&A with Jan Lauwereyns
5 June 2012 by Jan Lauwereyns Get inside the mind of festival poet Jan Lauwereyns.
Dichters, sjamanisme en het kreukelige leven
3 June 2012 by Jabik Veenbaas Het heeft iets magisch. Je zit aan tafel met de dichter die je hebt vertaald, voorafgaand aan zijn …
The work of joining
2 June 2012 by Iain Galbraith One feels inclined to begin with difficulties. But why? Is that what defines the work – labour, …
Poetry and the remainder
31 May 2012 by Chus Pato The work of Sappho or the Epic of Gilgamesh are examples of incomplete works. History did not …
The life of a translator
29 May 2012 by Susan Wicks Though I have a background in languages, I came to translation by accident. I’d occasionally …
Searching for mushrooms
24 May 2012 by Jan Lauwereyns The incomplete is in the middle – of the search, of the process. What can we learn from it?
Translating: ‘Bring your bathing suit’
22 May 2012 by Lisa Katz At the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam, which I attend as often as I can as a site …
Welcome to the 2012 festival blog!
22 May 2012 by Sarah Ream and Megen Molé Welcome one and all to the 43rd Poetry International Festival blog.
 
 
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