Festival

52nd Poetry International Festival Rotterdam

10 - 12 June / LantarenVenster and Verhalenhuis Belvédère

From Friday 10 to Sunday 12 June the 52nd Poetry International will be throwing its festival's doors wide open to celebrate poetry, with eye-catching poets from all over the world and accessible events bursting with linguistic delights. Discover a world full of poetry that experiments, confronts and inspires, with readings, special thematic events, talkshows, films, workshops, poetry tours and afterparties. There will be poetry everywhere, live from the hearts of the festival at LantarenVenster and Verhalenhuis Belvédère.

Festival theme and more

Highlights

LantarenVenster Foyer

A last shot of poetry, featuring BOYBAND: The Literairy Boyband

Program

18:30

Sa June 4

Special

Rooftop Dutch Photo Museum

Woorden Worden Zinnen X Paginagroots X Poetry International

Anyone who attended in 2019 will definitely not want to miss this

18:00

Tu June 7

Workshop

Centrale Bibliotheek Rotterdam

SOLD OUT Poetry Writing Workshop - Safia Elhillo

Louder Than a Bomb - finale

13:30

Fr June 10

Workshop

Verhalenhuis Belvédère - upstairs

In Other Words: Translation Workshops Spanish & Japanese

Poems by Sara Uribe (Spanish) or Takako Arai (Japanese)

17:30

Fr June 10

Workshop

Verhalenhuis Belvédère - upstairs

SOLD OUT The Writer's Guide (to the Galaxy) - Writing Workshop:

Every Body Loves Some Body

18:00

Fr June 10

LantarenVenster Foyer

Welcome in the LV Foyer

Poetsclub, Poetry Circle, Virtual Reality Lab, Kay Slice & more

CINEMA POESÍA - film program

POETRY as/ in/ of FILM

18:00

Fr June 10

LantarenVenster Foyer

Poetry X Willem De Kooning Virtual Reality Lab

There’s always something going on in the LV foyer.

Poetry reading: Sara Uribe & Laura Jane Lee

Reading by Sara Uribe (Mexico) & Laura Jane Lee (Hong Kong)

Short reading: three poets

Ilya Kaminsky, Sasja Janssen & Kim Yideum

19:00

Fr June 10

Interview

Verhalenhuis Belvédère

Nazmiye Oral meets Gonca Özmen

Paterson, by Jim Jarmusch - feature film

The poetry of details defines this film about bus driver/poet Paterson (Adam Driver), inspired by...

19:30

Fr June 10

Verhalenhuis Belvédère - Kiosk

Red Yellow Orange Blues

Monumental video work & hangout

19:45

Fr June 10

Reading

LantarenVenster Foyer

Poetry X Poetry Circle 010

Talented spoken word artist from Circle - Host: Nina Vermeulen

Poetry reading: Threa Almontaser & Takako Arai

Poetry reading: Threa Almontaser (USA) & Takako Arai (Japan)

New Voices

The unruly sound of new voices in Dutch-language poetry

21:00

Fr June 10

Reading

LantarenVenster Foyer

Poetry X PoetsClub Live

There’s always something going on in the LV foyer.

Short reading: three poets

Athena Farrokhzad, Aigerim Tazhi & Cornelia Hülmbauer

Poetry X Amenti Theatre Company

poets and dancers - bounderies of the unnamable

23:00

Fr June 10

Party

LantarenVenster Foyer

Poetry Night featuring Kay Slice & Band and DJ Doktoro

Afterparty featuring Kay Slice & Band

12:00

Sa June 11

Tour

Verhalenhuis Belvédère (Lunch + departure)

SOLD OUT Poetry Walk & Lunch - 'Poetry Lives Here'

Delicious lunch, unexpected locations, poets and spoken word artists

12:30

Sa June 11

Workshop

Verhalenhuis Belvédère

In Other Words: Translation Workshop - Turkish

Translate a poem by Gonca Özmen from Turkish

13:30

Sa June 11

Quay Rijnhaven at LantarenVenster

Unveiling poetry line Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky, Paul Keijzer & Reinier Weers

Moving Poetry

Short films by Marieke van der Lippe, Peter Tscherkassky, Marinus Groothof en Frank Ternier

15:00

Sa June 11

LantarenVenster Foyer

Welcome in the LV Foyer

There’s always something going on in the LV foyer.

15:00

Sa June 11

Workshop

Verhalenhuis Belvédère

In Other Words: Translation Workshop - German

Translate a poem by Cornelia Hülmbauer from German

15:00

Sa June 11

LantarenVenster Foyer

Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva & Dick Ronteltap - miniconcert

Meet Ilya Kaminsky

Franka Hummels meets Ilya Kaminsky - Interpreted into dutch sign language

15:30

Sa June 11

LantarenVenster 1 and 3

Sign language poets and poetry with sign language interpreter

Première Imaginings, performances Ilya Kaminsky and Safia Elhillio, more

15:45

Sa June 11

Talk

LantarenVenster Foyer

A BODY of water

A talk about water in poetry

The Scattered Feminine

The female body: experiences, rules and rituals in poetry

Poetry reading: Gonca Özmen & Aigerim Tazhi

Reading by Gonca Özmen (Turkey) & Aigerim Tazhi (Kazachstan)

17:00

Sa June 11

Interview

Verhalenhuis Belvédère - downstairs

Podium op Zaterdag (Radio live from Poetry)

Poets and musicians: live radio from Poetry

17:00

Sa June 11

Book presentation

LantarenVenster Foyer

Wunderkammer - Nils Christian Moe-Repstad

Presentation translation of the collection by Liesbeth Huijer

Imaginings (première) & Performances Kitchen’s Light

Signed word: poets tell their story poetically in sign language

Short reading: three poets

Threa Almontaser, Marjolijn van Heemstra & Laura Jane Lee

Poetry reading: Kim Yideum & Athena Farrokhzad

Reading by Kim Yideum (South-Korea) & Athena Farrokhzad (Sweden/Iran)

18:45

Sa June 11

Talk

LantarenVenster Foyer

A body IN poetry

Let's talk about the body in poetry with Sasja Janssen

19:00

Sa June 11

Interview

Verhalenhuis Belvédère

An evening with Sara Uribe

Dinner and interview - Bring missing people back to life

Videodrome, by David Cronenberg - feature film

Cable television operator Max Renn (James Woods) is constantly looking for even more challenging ...

19:00

Sa June 11

Reading

LantarenVenster Foyer

Poetry x PoetsClub Live

There’s always something going on in the LV foyer.

Poetry Reading: Nhã Thuyên

Reading by this years Poet in Residence from Vietnam

Nils Christian Moe-Repstad, featuring Fulco Ottervanger

cancelled due to circumstances

A body AS poetry

A talk about embodied poetry

Poetry reading: Ilya Kaminsky & Safia Elhillo

Ilya Kaminsky (USA/Russia/Ukrain) & Safia Elhillo (USA/Sudan) - Interpreted into dutch sign language

My Body, My Poem

Poems, film and music pair the body to poetry

Climax, by Gaspar Noé - feature film

Even as a film-goer you run the risk of being seriously intoxicated by all those almost paranoid ...

Poetry reading: Cornelia Hülmbauer & Ricardo Domeneck

Reading by Cornelia Hülmbauer (Austria) & Ricardo Domeneck (Brasil)

23:00

Sa June 11

Party

LantarenVenster Foyer

Poetry Night, featuring Team KTW

Verhalenhuis Belvédère - upstairs

In Other Words: Translation Workshop Dutch - English

Translate a poem by Mustafa Kör into English

12:00

Su June 12

Tour

Verhalenhuis Belvédère (Lunch + departure)

SOLD OUT Poetry Walk & Lunch - 'Poetry Lives Here'

Delicious lunch, unexpected locations, poets and spoken word artists

14:00

Su June 12

Interview

LantarenVenster Foyer

Meet Marjolijn van Heemstra

A conversation with Dutch poet Marjolijn van Heemstra

14:00

Su June 12

LantarenVenster Foyer

Welcome in the LV Foyer

There’s always something going on in the LV foyer.

Thanks for Listening: Ode to K. Schippers

Featuring GErshwin Bonevacia, K. Michel and Jan Baeke

Poetry reading Eva Gerlach & Sasja Janssen

Eva Gerlach (the Netherlands) & Sasja Janssen (the Netherlands)

The Color of Pomegranates, by Sergei Paradjanov

Fascinating images and music, filled with mystical love for god, for art and for a lover

15:00

Su June 12

Book presentation

LantarenVenster Foyer

Awater Live: Ik vond vele reisgenoten

20 years of labor of love: Poetry Magazine Awater is celebrating its birthday!

Poetry reading: Mustafa Kör & Marjolijn van Heemstra

Reading by Mustafa Kör (Belgium) & Marjolijn van Heemstra (Netherlands)

Dutch 101

Translation talk dedicated to the Dutch language

16:00

Su June 12

Reading

LantarenVenster Foyer

Reading Gershwin Bonevacia

The STATE of POETRY

Award ceremony C. Buddingh'-Prize 2022

Poesía sin fin, by Alejandro Jodorowsky - feature film

Jodorowsky's penchant for surrealism and symbolism, in Federico Fellini's style, playful and light

Short reading: three poets

Takako Arai, Cornelia Hülmbauer & Aigerim Tazhi

18:00

Su June 12

Party

LantarenVenster Foyer

A last shot of poetry, featuring BOYBAND: The Literairy Boyband

Festival closing party

Threa Almontaser

(United States of America, 1993)

Takako Arai

(Japan, 1966)

Ricardo Domeneck

(Brazil, 1977)

Safia Elhillo

(United States of America, 1990)

Athena Farrokhzad

(Sweden, 1983)

Eva Gerlach

(The Netherlands, 1948)

Marjolijn van Heemstra

(The Netherlands, 1981)

Cornelia Hülmbauer

(Austria, 1982)

Sasja Janssen

(The Netherlands, 1968)

Ilya Kaminsky

(Ukraine, 1977)

Mustafa Kör

(Belgium, 1976)

Laura Jane Lee

(Hong Kong, 1998)

Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad

(Norway, 1972)

Gonca Özmen

(Turkey, 1982)

Aigerim Tazhi

(Kazakhstan, 1981)

Nhã Thuyên

(Viet Nam, 1986)

Sara Uribe

(Mexico, 1978)

Kim Yideum

(Korea, Republic of, 1969)

Festival guests

Maxime Garcia Diaz - genomineerd voor de C. Buddingh'-prijs 2022

(The Netherlands, 0)

Ferdy Karto - genomineerd voor de C. Buddingh'-prijs 2022

(The Netherlands, 0)

Nisrine Mbarki - genomineerd voor de C. Buddingh'-prijs 2022

(The Netherlands, 0)

Esohe Weyden - genomineerd voor de C. Buddingh'-prijs 2022

(Belgium, 0)

Jeroen Naaktgeboren – PoetsClub op vrijdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Daryl Raphaël – PoetsClub op vrijdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Eline Schellekens – PoetsClub op vrijdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Jan Wagenaar – PoetsClub op vrijdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Linde Suzanne – PoetsClub op vrijdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Angelika Geronymaki – PoetsClub op vrijdag

(Greece, 0)

Miguel Santos - PoetsClub op zaterdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Peer Hommel - PoetsClub op zaterdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Jeroen Sloof - PoetsClub op zaterdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Simon Coops - PoetsClub op zaterdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Olivier van Nooten - PoetsClub op zaterdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Amber Hernandez - PoetsClub op zaterdag

(The Netherlands, 0)

Gershwin Bonevacia

(The Netherlands, 0)

Jens Meijen

(Belgium, 1996)

Bruno Ferro Xavier Da Silva

(The Netherlands, 0)

Dick Ronteltap

(The Netherlands, 0)

The Itinerant Poetry Librarian

(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 0)

uitgelicht

Nieuws

I.M. Remco Campert

news

Interim director Reinier Weers will be succeeded on 1 September / June 20, 2022

Diana Chin-A-Fat new director of Poetry International

News / 'Het is warm in de hvemind' best debut collection / June 12, 2022

35th Buddingh Prize goes to Maxime Garcia Diaz

/ May 16, 2022

New Podcast - The road to the 52nd Poetry International Festival

More news

Visitor information

For questions about ticket sales and festival programming E-mail: kaartverkoop@poetry.nl

Ticket sale
Day tickets and weekend passe-partouts for the festival on June 10, 11 and 12 2022 can be purchased online. You will receive your order as e-ticket(s).
With a day ticket/passe-partout you can visit all festival programs in LantarenVenster and Verhalenhuis Belvédère, with the exception of workshops and poetry tours. For those, single tickets are sold through this website.
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Food
LantarenVenster offers a special menu: Pita vegetarian chicken, corn salsa, lettuce, red onion with harissa mayonnaise - € 12,50 pp. Available on Friday (18:00–20:00) and Saturday (17:30–20:00).
Verhalenhuis Belvédère offers dinner in combination with Nazmiye Oral meets Gonca Özmen (Friday, 19:00) and An evening with Sara Uribe (Saturday, 19:00). You need a reservation (€15 p.p., ex. drinks)

Visiting the festival
Upon arrival in LantarenVenster, you will receive a wristband at the festival desk upon showing your festival ticket, which will give access to halls 1, 2 and 3 of LantarenVenster. All programs and venues are free to enter and exit, but the following applies: full = full.
The program in the halls of Verhalenhuis Belvédère is freely accessible and can also be visited without a festival ticket.
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Bereikbaarheid
LantarenVenster: Otto Reuchlinweg 996, 3072 MD Rotterdam- Wilhelminapier
Verhalenhuis Belvédère: Rechthuislaan 1, 3072 LB Rotterdam-Katendrecht

Beide locaties zijn goed bereikbaar met openbaar vervoer, auto, fiets, watertaxi en te voet.
Betaald parkeren is mogelijk op parkeerterreinen- en garages in de buurt.
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Partners

LantarenVenster – Verhalenhuis Belvédère

52nd Poetry International Festival Rotterdam

10 - 12 June / LantarenVenster and Verhalenhuis Belvédère

Highlights

Welcome in the LV Foyer

The STATE of POETRY

Thanks for Listening: Ode to K. Schippers

Awater Live: Ik vond vele reisgenoten

A last shot of poetry, featuring BOYBAND: The Literairy Boyband

Program

Woorden Worden Zinnen X Paginagroots X Poetry International

SOLD OUT Poetry Writing Workshop - Safia Elhillo

Louder Than a Bomb - finale

In Other Words: Translation Workshops Spanish & Japanese

SOLD OUT The Writer's Guide (to the Galaxy) - Writing Workshop:

Welcome in the LV Foyer

CINEMA POESÍA - film program

Poetry X Willem De Kooning Virtual Reality Lab

Poetry reading: Sara Uribe & Laura Jane Lee

Short reading: three poets

Nazmiye Oral meets Gonca Özmen

Paterson, by Jim Jarmusch - feature film

Red Yellow Orange Blues

Poetry X Poetry Circle 010

Poetry reading: Threa Almontaser & Takako Arai

New Voices

Poetry X PoetsClub Live

Short reading: three poets

Poetry X Amenti Theatre Company

Poetry Night featuring Kay Slice & Band and DJ Doktoro

SOLD OUT Poetry Walk & Lunch - 'Poetry Lives Here'

In Other Words: Translation Workshop - Turkish

Unveiling poetry line Ilya Kaminsky

Moving Poetry

Welcome in the LV Foyer

In Other Words: Translation Workshop - German

Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva & Dick Ronteltap - miniconcert

Meet Ilya Kaminsky

Sign language poets and poetry with sign language interpreter

A BODY of water

The Scattered Feminine

Poetry reading: Gonca Özmen & Aigerim Tazhi

Podium op Zaterdag (Radio live from Poetry)

Wunderkammer - Nils Christian Moe-Repstad

Imaginings (première) & Performances Kitchen’s Light

Short reading: three poets

Poetry reading: Kim Yideum & Athena Farrokhzad

A body IN poetry

An evening with Sara Uribe

Videodrome, by David Cronenberg - feature film

Poetry x PoetsClub Live

Poetry Reading: Nhã Thuyên

Nils Christian Moe-Repstad, featuring Fulco Ottervanger

A body AS poetry

Poetry reading: Ilya Kaminsky & Safia Elhillo

My Body, My Poem

Climax, by Gaspar Noé - feature film

Poetry reading: Cornelia Hülmbauer & Ricardo Domeneck

Poetry Night, featuring Team KTW

In Other Words: Translation Workshop Dutch - English

SOLD OUT Poetry Walk & Lunch - 'Poetry Lives Here'

Meet Marjolijn van Heemstra

Welcome in the LV Foyer

Thanks for Listening: Ode to K. Schippers

Poetry reading Eva Gerlach & Sasja Janssen

The Color of Pomegranates, by Sergei Paradjanov

Awater Live: Ik vond vele reisgenoten

Poetry reading: Mustafa Kör & Marjolijn van Heemstra

Dutch 101

Reading Gershwin Bonevacia

The STATE of POETRY

Poesía sin fin, by Alejandro Jodorowsky - feature film

Short reading: three poets

A last shot of poetry, featuring BOYBAND: The Literairy Boyband

Festival poets

Threa Almontaser

Takako Arai

Ricardo Domeneck

Safia Elhillo

Athena Farrokhzad

Eva Gerlach