🥳 We're in Liverpool! Join us for our final event of #EPF2025 at the Open Eye Gallery at 3pm featuring performances from: ⭐️ Thomas Ballhausen and Robert Sheppard ⭐️ Lena Chilari and Michael Sutton ⭐️ Tom Jenks and SJ Fowler More below 👇

📣 EPF is almost over! If you missed any performances and want to check them out, there's plenty videos and photos available on the website! Check them all out here:

🇸🇪 Let's have a Swedish Poetry Celebration! #EPF2025 We'll be having our penultimate event of the festival at 7pm tonight at the Kingston University Town House Top Floor Café. Featuring performances from: ⭐️ Ida Börjel ⭐️ Andra Simons ⭐️ Julia Rose Lewis and Paul Hawkins More info below 👇

We're in Norwich! 🥳 At 6:30pm tonight, join us in Dragon Hall at the National Centre for Writing! We've got a whole host of great performances lined up, including: ⭐️ George Szirtes and Ko Ko Thett ⭐️ Thomas Ballhausen and David Spittle ⭐️ Lena Chilari and Cat Woodward More below 👇

🇨🇭 It's time for a Swiss Poetry Celebration! #EPF2025 At 8pm tonight at the National Poetry Library, hear readings and brand new collaborations from: ⭐️ Christian de Simoni and James Knight ⭐️ Jessica Zuan and Kate Wakeling ⭐️ Nathalie Schmid and Han Smith More info here:

🇪🇪 Let's have an Estonian Poetry Celebration! #EPF2025 Guest poets Mathura, Kristjan Haljak and Sveta Grigorjeva join us at the Poetry Society Cafe at 7pm to celebrate Estonian poetry in an EPF first! Performer list + more info below:

📜 WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK? > MON 30 JUN: Estonian Poetry Celebration @ Poetry Society Cafe, 7pm > WED 2 JUL: Swiss Poetry Celebration @ National Poetry Library, 8pm > THUR 3 JUL: European Camarade in Norwich @ National Centre for Writing, 6:30pm More below 👇

📢 London people! Tonight, we are heading to @europeanpoetryfest.bsky.social to see some Estonian poetry at The Poetry Cafe. Come join us! It is FREE. poetrysociety.org.uk/event/estoni...

🇳🇴 Let's have a Norwegian Poetry Celebration! #EPF2025 Join us at the Hundred Years Gallery @ 7pm! Featuring performances from: ⭐️ Thor Magnus Tangerås and David Spittle ⭐️ Vilde Bjerke Torset and Lavinia Singer ⭐️ Hilde Myklebust and Hannah Kaip More below 👇

🇦🇹 It's time for an Austrian Poetry Celebration! #EPF2025 We'll be at the Austrian Cultural Forum @ 7pm with incredible performances from: ⭐ Mira Magdalena Sickinger and Eley Williams ⭐ Katarína Krupičková and SJ Fowler ⭐ Lydia Steinbacher and Miruna Fulgeanu More info below:

🇨🇾 Join us for a Cypriot Poetry celebration! 🇬🇷 Cypriot and Greek poets join us for poetry collaborations at the High Commission of Cyprus @ 7pm! Performances from: ⭐ Avgi Lilli and Calliope Michail ⭐ Stathis Dimitriadis and Panos Ghikas ⭐ Nora Nadjarian and Laura Davis More info below 👇

🤩 More performance videos just dropped! #EPF2025 Check out the incredible performances from our Lithuanian Poetry Celebration last Saturday here! www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/lithuania25

📜 WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK? > WED 25 JUN: Cypriot Poetry Celebration @ Cypriot High Commission > THURS 26 JUN: Austrian Poetry Celebration @ Austrian Cultural Forum > SAT 28 JUN: Norwegian Poetry Celebration @ 100 Years Gallery Have you booked tickets? Check out our pinned thread for more info!

🇱🇹 Join us for a Lithuanian poetry celebration! #EPF2025 Egidija Čiricaitė and Greta Ambrazaitė present their work at OPEN Ealing, Dickens Yard @ 2pm today, followed by collab performances from: ⭐️ Egidija Čiricaitė and Jonathan Boyd ⭐️ Greta Ambrazaitė and Francis de Lima More info below 👇

🤩 Our first two events of #EPF2025 were a success! Performance videos are available here: Latvian Poetry: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/latvia25 Flanders Poetry: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/flanders25 We have one more performance tomorrow! Find more info in our pinned post 📌

It's time for a Flanders poetry celebration!🇧🇪 Three Flemish poets visit London to collaborate with British poets at Flanders House, Cavendish Square @ 7pm! Performances from: ⭐️ Lies Gallez and Mischa Foster Poole ⭐️ Astrid Haerens and Mark Waldron ⭐️ Tijl Nuyts and James Wilkes More below 👇

🥳 #EPF2025 starts today! 🇱🇻 SJ Fowler and Krišjānis Zeļģis perform and launch their collaborative publication 'Levels of Care' at the National Poetry Library @ 8pm! More performances from: ⭐️ Līva Marta Roze and Danica Ignacio ⭐️ Linda Mence and Mary Paterson ⭐️ Agnese Graudiņa and James Byrne

📜 WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK? > WED 18 JUN: Latvian Poetry Celebration @ National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre > THURS 19 JUN: Flanders Poetry Celebration @ Flanders House > SAT 21 JUN: Lithuanian Poetry Celebration @ Open Ealing Have you booked tickets? Check out our pinned thread for more info! 👇

London people! Join us for a trip to @europeanpoetryfest.bsky.social on 30 June to see some Estonian poetry. Want to come? Just DM or email [email protected] or see you there

Six days left! Who's excited? If you have any questions about EPF, drop them below 👇

9 days until our first event of the year! Tickets for some events have unfortunately sold out, but you can still pre-book tickets for some of our other events. See the thread below for links:

Did you know we don't just celebrate in London? We have events in Norwich and Liverpool this year, on July 3 and 6 respectively. Here's a performance video from last year's European Camarade in the Open Eye Gallery featuring Tim Postovit and Sarah Dawson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5-6...

On July 4, we'll be having our Swedish poetry celebration held at Kington University Townhouse's Cafe Corner room! This is our fourth Swedish poetry celebration with EPF. During 2020, a collaborative poetry film was commissioned for the festival with Swedish poets which you can watch here:

This year, on June 28, our Norwegian poetry celebration is being hosted by the Hundred Years Gallery in London! Last year, they hosted Swedish poetry celebration. Here's a video of a performance from the night by SJ Fowler and Benedict Taylor: youtu.be/JUcPakYWnX8?...

Happy June! We've got just over two weeks until the start of the festival. Don't forget to book your tickets for the ticketed events you're attending! For a masterlist of where to book, check out our pinned thread or the front page of our website! www.europeanpoetryfestival.com

🚨 The thread of events has once again been updated! Do check it out for further details.

🗣️ NEW EVENT ALERT We've now got an event at the Kingston University Town House on Friday July 4th: a Swedish poetry celebration! Starts at 7pm, and free as always. For more information, see here: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/sweden25

🗣️ NEW EVENT ALERT We have another event happening Saturday June 28th: a Norwegian Poetry celebration at the Hundred Years Gallery in London! Starts at 7pm, and totally free. For more information, see here: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/norway25

Our event on the 19th of June is at Flanders House, a Belgian Embassy building at Cavendish Square in London. Here's a video of a performance from last year's event at Flanders House, featuring Ruth Lasters and Vanessa Onwuemezi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFOh...

One month until the beginning of #EPF2025! We'll be kicking off at the National Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre with a Latvian Poetry celebration. Here's a performance from last year's Latvian Poetry celebration featuring SJ Fowler and Krišjānis Zeļģis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lBZ...

NOTE: Both events at the National Poetry Library are sold out! More tickets may be released soon.

🧐 WHO ARE WE? 💭 The European Poetry Festival is here to celebrate its eighth year as a celebration with nine events over the course of June and July. If you want to learn more about us and our history, see below 👇

📜 NOW ANNOUNCING: EUROPEAN POETRY FESTIVAL 2025 This summer, pairs of European poets visiting and based in the UK are creating and performing brand new works at events in London, Norwich, and Liverpool Interested? See below for event details 👇