POEMS FOR FREE! Over 100 thousand poems in more than 200 places will be handed out in Warsaw in April. “Poems in the City” will start already next month. And it will probably be the biggest poetry promoting event in whole Europe.

April in Warsaw means poetry for free – and everywhere you go! New, unusual version of “Poems in the City” will promote access to poetry that has never been seen before. Over 100 thousand poems will be handed out.

Eighteen European poets have joined the project with their poetry focused on the topic of FREEDOM. The poems represent diversity of traditions, cultures and views of artists from different corners of our continent.

The project involves i.a. a poem by the Danish poet Inger Christensen. It comes from the Polish edition of her collection of poems alphabet translated by Bogusława Sochańska and published in Poland this year.

Inger Christensen (1935-2009) – an outstanding representative of Danish postmodernism. Author of seven volumes of poetry, three novels, two volumes of essays, dramas and others. She won e.g. the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, known as the “little Nobel” (1994), Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1994) and the European Poetry Prize (1995) as well as many other distinctions. She was frequently mentioned by many European literary crititcs as a Danish candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.

The promotion is valid by the end of April or until the stock of 100 thousand poems will have run out!

Organizers: European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC Warsaw)
Co-organizer: City of Warsaw
Partners: European Commission representation in Poland, the Royal Łazienki Museum

Poems in the City 2018
April 3rd-30th
Local shops, cafes, hairdressers, bus and tram stops, clubs…
Warsaw
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