Versopolis

Contact

Versopolis

Kersnikova ulica 4, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.versopolis.com/

versopolis@zalozba.org

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 Europe-wide project that functions as a professional network and a web-based platform, Versopolis.com, with the aim of connecting the national poetry scenes across Europe. An annually selected group of poets will represent these scenes as they tour to partner festivals and they meet new audiences, authors and literary professionals from other countries. In accordance with the very language specific nature of poetry, Versopolis takes care of the translations of the selected poets' works. Versopolis 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 position itself – by means of a web portal – as a node for European poetry. As poetry is still quite dispersed on the web and mostly sticks within national or at least language boundaries, 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 leads and coordinates the project which currently includes 11 countries, 55 poets and 14 festivals: Ars Poetica in Bratislava (Slovakia); Genoa International Poetry Festival (Italy); Ůmeas Internationella Littfest (Sweden); Instytut Kultury Miejskiej (Poland); Ledbury Poetry Festival (Great Britain); Struški večeri na poezijata (Macedonia); Poetinis Druskininku Ruduo (Lithuania); Felix Poetry Festival (Belgium); Goranovo Prolječe (Croatia); Literature & Wine Festival in Krems (Austria); Le printemps des poetes (France), Hausacher Leselenz (Germany), Publishers' Forum NGO (Ukraine), and the Days of Poetry and Wine Festival (Slovenia), organised by Beletrina Publishing Institute.

The Versopolis platform involves the following literary/poetry festivals

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); Cristoph W. Bauer (Austria), and Olena Huseinova, Andriy Bondar and Kateryna Kalytko (Ukraine).

See also

• Beletrina Publishing Institute
• Days of Poetry and Wine Festival

External links

• Versopolis portal