Friday 11 June, 20.00 hrs: Poets from Rotterdam
In the programme America, America!, poets from Rotterdam, Jana Beranová, Joop van den Bosch, Ayatollah Musa, Jan Oudenaarden, Peggy Verzett and Rien Vroegindeweij read poems that they have written about the famed Rotterdam-America cruise line. Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb reads his Adonis translations. This programme is in Dutch.
Presented by Manuel Kneepkens and Arie van der Ent.
Photo: Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb reads his Adonis translations. © Pieter Vandermeer / Tineke de Lange
- Poetry and Prose
- The Golden Goose: Festival closing ceremony
- Singing Reality: Maria Barnas and Renske Janssen
- Poetry Talks and Poetry in the Afternoon
- Poetry from the USA
- I Am the Wind: Jon Fosse
- GARDENSENSIBILITIES: Live radio play with WORM and Ursula Andkjaer Olsen
- Nostalgia for Perpetuation: The bilingual poetry of Fernando Pessoa
- Ewa Lipska and Wislawa Szymborska
- Digital Poetry
- Layla and Madjnun
- Music and live performances
- 'Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird': Festival opening ceremony