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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.

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

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I HAVE A CRISIS FOR YOU

Lyuba Yakimchuk

Ian Sanborn

(United States of America, 1982)

Hoofdletter

Esther Phillips

Esther Phillips

(Barbados, 1950)

Simon Armitage

(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1963)

Saul Williams

(United States of America, 1972)

Maricela Guerrero

Maricela Guerrero

H.C. ten Berge

(The Netherlands, 1938)

GUERILLA’S NOCTURNE

Kéchi Nne Nomu

Alysia Nicole Harris

Alysia Nicole Harris

(United States of America, 1988)

MALTESE

Sonja Prins

(The Netherlands, 1912 - 2009)

Luljeta Lleshanaku

Luljeta Lleshanaku

(Albania, 1968)

IDENTIKIT

Eline Marengo

(Suriname, 1993)

REGGAE FI DADA

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Lyuba Yakimchuk

Lyuba Yakimchuk

(Ukraine, 1985)

I KICKED A MUSHROOM

Nadia Mifsud

Derek Otte

(The Netherlands, 1988)

TIME

Diana Anphimiadi

Diana Anphimiadi

(Georgia, 1982)

Chris Tse

(New Zealand, 1982)

MY ANCESTORS GIFTED ME THEIR SILENCE

Esther Phillips

Gustavo Gac-Artigas

Gustavo Gac-Artigas

WINTER SENTENCE

POET NO THANKS

Jean D’Amérique

Jasmijn Lobik

(The Netherlands, 0)

Rozalie Hirs

(The Netherlands, 1965)

Astrid H. Roemer

Astrid H. Roemer

(Suriname, 1947)

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Meet Dutch poets

Marjolijn van Heemstra

Marjolijn van Heemstra

(The Netherlands, 1981)

Sasja Janssen

(The Netherlands, 1968)

Alfred Schaffer

Alfred Schaffer

(The Netherlands, 1973)

Radna Fabias

(The Netherlands, 1983)

Albertina Soepboer

Albertina Soepboer

(The Netherlands, 1969)

Eva Gerlach

(The Netherlands, 1948)

Anne Feddema

(The Netherlands, 1961)

Cees Nooteboom

(The Netherlands, 1933)

Herman Gorter

(The Netherlands, 1864 - 1927)

Pieter Boskma

(The Netherlands, 1956)

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