Versopolis

Contact

Versopolis.com

Beethovnova 9/I, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.versopolis.com/

Phone386 (0) 1 01 200 3700

Published byBeletrina Publishing Institute

Events abroad

Past Events

• 23 Sep 2020

  Belgium Brussels Hungarian Cultural Institute

  
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  The poetess Katja Gorečan attends Hear the Women Call - Virtual opening night, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Transpoesie Festival, in the scope of the Versopolis platform, coorganised by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Brussels, EUNIC Brussels, and the Slovenian Book Agency

  at the Transpoesie Festival

  
  

  
  

• 13 Oct 2017

  Germany Frankfurt am Main International stage (Hall 5.1)

  
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  The talk Poets' voices in times of crisis with Geert Buelens (BE), Pep Olona (ES), and Aleš Šteger, Versopolis Platform

  at the Frankfurt Book Fair

  
  

  
  

• 16 Nov 2016

  Slovakia Bratislava Café Berlinka

  
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  Writer Kristina Hočevar in the framework of the poetry platform Versopolis

  at the Ars Poetica International Poetry Festival

  
  

  
  

• 5 Oct 2016

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  10 Oct 2016

  Lithuania Druskininkai

  
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  Veronika Dintinjana reading her poetry (translated by Laima Masytė), among the five poets invited by Versopolis project led by Beletrina Publishing Institute

  at the Druskininkai Poetic Fall

  
  

  
  

• 16 Apr 2016

  Austria Krems Salzstadl Wirtshaus Bühne

  
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  Readings by poet Ana Pepelnik, within the project Versopolis, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,

  at the Literatur & Wein, Das Kulturenfestival

  
  

  
  

• 19 Nov 2015

  Slovakia Bratislava Café Berlinka

  
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  Writer Stanka Hrastelj in the framework of the poetry platform Versopolis

  at the Ars Poetica International Poetry Festival

  
  

  
  

• 9 Oct 2015

  Poland Gdansk Grand Cru Restaurant

  
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  Writer Kristina Hočevar presentation in the framework of the poetry platform Versopolis

  at the European Poet of Freedom Literary Festival

  
  

  
  

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Versopolis is a European-wide project that at the same time functions as a professional network and a web based platform for connecting European national poetry scenes. These are represented by an annually selected cast of poets and various international poetry & literature festivals, who oblige themselves to invite a set number of these poets and present them to their audiences. This way aspiring and emerging poets get to reach an international audience and at the same time meet poets and literature professionals from other countries.

With the very language specific nature of poetry, Versopolis takes care for the translations of the works by the poets involved, thus in the first place even enabling such a project. This in itself was launched in 2014, with the website set up and the first exchanges taking place in 2015.

Besides communicating the works of the selected poets to the festival selectors, Versopolis.com strives to also position itself – by means of a webportal – as a nodal point for European poetry. As this is otherwise predominantly dispersed on the web on a national basis, Versopolis aims for a more open and diverse European culture of poetry. As such, Versopolis is supported by the European Commission’s Creative Europe programme.

Versopolis - Where Poetry Lives by Versopolis on YouTube

Versopolis festivals and poets

Beletrina Publishing Institute is leading and coordinating this project which currently includes 11 countries, 55 poets and 11 festivals. These include Ars Poetica (Slovakia), Genoa International Poetry Festival (Italy), Ůmeas Internationella Litteraturfestival (Sweden), Instytut Kultury Miejskiej (Poland), Ledbury Poetry Festival (Great Britain), Struski veceri na poezijata (Macedonia), Poetinis Druskininku Ruduo (Lithuania), Felix Poetry Festival (Belgium), Goranovo Prolječe (Croatia), Literature & Wine Festival (Austria) and Days of Poetry and Wine Festival (Slovenia, organised by Beletrina.

Some of the poets involved are Katja Perat, Gašper Bivšek, Kristina Hočevar, Stanka Hrastar, Gorazd Kocijančič (Slovenia), Krystyna Dąbrowska (Poland), Vladimir Martinovski (Macedonia), Vytautas Stankus (Lithuania), Mária Ferenčuhová (Slovakia), David Vikgren (Sweden), Eleanor Rees (Great Britain) and Cristoph W. Bauer (Austria).

See also

• Beletrina Publishing Institute
• Days of Poetry and Wine Festival

External links

• Versopolis portal