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Early bird tickets are now live!

With a new year on the horizon, it is a great moment to start looking forward to something fun.

The 56th Poetry International Festival will take place on 4, 5, 6 and 7 June 2026 in Rotterdam, and our Early Bird passe-partouts are now available.

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Early bird tickets are now live!

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Archive Tours: Discover your favorite poems

With more than 10.000 poems in more than ninety languages, translated into English and often into Dutch, the Poetry Archives has a lot of reading material. Travel across the voluminous poetry collection of Poetry International with one of the Archive Tours – take for example the favorite poems of Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb – or choose poets and poems from a specific country, or pick your favorite festival edition or poems in a specific language or as audio or video.

Early bird tickets are now live!

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Early bird tickets are now live!

Support the PEN Emergency Fund!

Photos Woorden Worden Zinnen #68

Preview Poëziegeschenk 2026

Between Worlds

Netukulimk

There is a poem for that!

Deliciously Dancing with the Devil

"Dear Friends, please don’t misunderstand"

You have to change to stay the same

Poetry as protest

The doors of perception

Natural talents

From an (un)reliable source

Le Tour de la Poésie!

LGBTQ+

Summer Tour

A RESTRAINED SILENCE

Comfort & Consolation

Rozalie Hirs

Saul Williams

Jasmijn Lobik

Derek Otte

MAGHRIB

ecologic [2]

AMAZONIAN ALIENS

REGGAE FI DADA

Sonja Prins

Astrid H. Roemer

REVOLUTION ON THE WALLS OF MY MOUTH

Yentl van Stokkum

Maricela Guerrero

WHEN I LOOK AT YOU WITHOUT SPEAKING I’M DRAWING A MAP

I KICKED A MUSHROOM

Ian Sanborn

HOW MUCH MORE BEAUTIFUL COULD YOU BE NOW YOU'RE EATING PEACHES FOR BREAKFAST

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Nadia Mifsud

Diana Anphimiadi

Jean D’Amérique

MALTESE

Esther Phillips

i was born old

RIVERS

I HAVE A CRISIS FOR YOU

H.C. ten Berge

TIME

IDENTIKIT

The Lovers

Marjolijn van Heemstra

Sasja Janssen

Alfred Schaffer

Radna Fabias

Albertina Soepboer

Eva Gerlach

Anne Feddema

Cees Nooteboom

Herman Gorter

Pieter Boskma

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