Poetry International Archives News - July 29 2021     ARCHIVES NEWS     JULY 2021     Enjoy the Poetry International Festival 2021 What are you doing this summer? We are enjoying our holidays and looking back on the 51st Poetry International Festival that took place in June. Three wonderful days filled with performances, talkshows, workshops and livestreams, featuring established poets from all over the world, and inspiring young talents and spoken word-artists. Innovative, interdisciplinary poetry from the Netherlands and abroad. Did you miss the festival or do you want to watch the programmes and read the poems? Scroll below and enjoy!       Watch the aftermovie of Poetry International Festival 2021. Are you already excited about the next edition in June 2022?     NEW PUBLICATIONS         Raymond Antrobus (United Kingdom, 1989) Raymond Antrobus was born deaf and has hearing aids now. Deafness has coloured his experience of the world and his poetry. It became part of his (poet) identity. >> Read and listen to his poems >> Watch his performance 'Investigator of missing sounds' During this festivalprogramme, Antrobus performed poems and discussed his work and the influence of deafness on his poetry and life with host Kila van der Starre and the audience.       Juana Adcock (Mexico, 1982) Juana Adcock is a gifted poet and translator. Coming from Mexico but living and working in Scotland, she produces a highly distinctive multilingual sound. >> Read and listen to her poems >> Watch her performance at Poetry International Festival This event featured Adcock’s first ever performance of her work in Rotterdam.       Samantha Barendson (France, 1976) Samantha Barendson, born in Spain to an Argentinian mother and an Italian father, writes, to quote the poet herself, poetry ‘the way she would dance the tango’; as a fight between love and rage. The tone of her work can be intense, but at the same time succinct, sharp, and phrased simply in order to reach a larger audience. >> Read and listen to her poems Poems are in original French and translated into English and Dutch. >> Watch her first performance at Poetry International Festival (with translation into English and Dutch)       Carolyn Forché (United States, 1950) A key role in the programme of Poetry International Festival 2021 was reserved for the poet to whom we owe the theme of this year’s festival: Carolyn Forché. Her work reflects her concerns about human rights. In 2019, her memoir What You Have Heard Is True was published, about her experiences in the civil war in El Salvador. >> Read and listen to her poems >> Watch her poetry reading and conversation with Juana Adcock and Alfred Schaffer about the role of poetry in today's society.       Ronelda Kamfer (South Africa, 1981) Ronelda Kamfer writes multilayered poetry of great immediacy that is deeply rooted in the harsh everyday reality of life in South Africa. Chinatown is a highly personal collection about the abuse Kamfer suffered at the hands of her father is as unsettling and uncompromising as it is poetically rich in both word and images. >> Read and listen to her poems >> Watch her poetry reading and talk with Alfred Schaffer at the festival.       Vanessa Kisuule (United Kingdom, 1991) Vanessa Kisuule is a writer and performer and combines the directness and performative energy of slam and spoken word with the rich and varied language registers of poetry. >> Read and listen to her poems >> Watch her poetry reading and her story about the power and role of poetry, and how they are expressed in her work.       EXPLORE DUTCH POETRY         We have updates of a number of poet profiles who also performed at the Poetry International Festival 2021: Ellen Deckwitz, Paul Demets, Radna Fabias, Bernke Klein Zandvoort, Alfred Schaffer, Anne Vegter, Peter Verhelst. Read and listen to there poems and watch there poetry readings at the festival. Written and performed in Dutch (original) with English translation.     PLAYLIST POETRY INTERNATION FESTIVAL       Watch our Playlist of the 51st Poetry International Festival #PIFR51 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for video updates     Feel free to forward this newsletter within your network or share an invitation to subscribe   POETRY INTERNATIONAL WESTERSINGEL 16 3014 GN ROTTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS     -- -- ARCHIVES POETRY INTERNATIONAL FACEBOOK TWITTER INSTAGRAM --

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