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foyer
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22.30 hrs
DJ - de platenbuuv
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22.30 hrs
DJ - Willem Wereld
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22.30 hrs
DJ - Misses Rotterdam
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19.15 hrs
Poetry Talks - Georges Szirtes/ Judith Palmer
George Szirtes will be interviewed by Judith Palmer, director of The Poetry Society in London, which manages the British domain of the Poetry International Web.
22.30 hrs
DJ - Mart
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19.00 hrs
Poetry Talks - Poezija
The editors of the Croatian poetry magazine POEZIJA will present a special English-language publication giving ‘a panorama of Croatian poetry 1989-2009'.
22.30 hrs
DJ - DJW
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19.15 hrs
Poetry Talks - Kazuko Shiraishi/ Yasuhiro Yotsumoto
Kazuko Shiraishi will be interviewed by Yashiro Yotsumoto, a poet and editor of the Japanese domain of Poetry International Web.
22.30 hrs
DJ - Hoekboud
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19.00 hrs
Poetry Talk - Dunya Mikhail, Valzhyna Mort, Vera Pavlova
As a woman poet, why do you opt to live in a different country than the one you were born and brought up in? Poets Dunya Mikhail, Valzhyna Mort and Vera Pavlova discuss this topic with the American poetry critic, editor and poet Don Share.
22.30 hrs
Dichters Dansen Niet (Poets Don't Dance)
On 19 June Dichters Dansen Niet, the collective based around Serge van Duijnhoven and DJ/ producer Fred De Backer, will be winding up the 40th Poetry International Festival with a special performance. Together with jazz improviser Wolter Wierbos and the legendary bassist Ali Haurand, founder of the European Jazz Ensemble and the bass-player in Jacques Brel’s band, Dichters Dansen Niet will prove the opposite of what their name implies.
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main auditorium
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22.00 hrs
De Kift
20.00 hrs
Opening Event: ‘Jade stairways and pearl curtains’
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20.00 hrs
They came to see a poet
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20.00 hrs
Poetry Readings - Tatjana Daan’s Choice
A new face, a new vision. It was Tatjana Daan’s job, as the successor of the festival’s first director Martin Mooij, to take Poetry International into the twenty-first century. For this anniversary festival she has invited the poets Umberto Fiori (Italy), Gert Vlok Nel (South Africa) and Jacques Roubaud (France), who made a great impression on her when she was director.
21.30 hrs
Poetry Special: W.H. Auden: 'The Music Must Always Play'
War, life, love: W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was known for his virtuoso mastery of rhyme and metre and did not shy away from the great themes. Auden’s extraordinary poetic output forms the centrepiece of this special dedicated to him.
The theme of this varied evening on the poetry, translations and impact of Auden’s work, will be its musicality, featuring the festival poets Matthew Sweeney, Maura Dooley, George Szirtes and Luke Davies. This Auden special will be hosted by Auden translator Benno Barnard.
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20.00 hrs
Poetry Reading: 'The War Works Hard'
'The War Works Hard' defines the harrowing consequences of a war, in this case the war in Iraq. In her poetry the poet Dunya Mikhail (Iraq/USA) regularly condemns the operations of American forces in her native country, while poet and ex-soldier Brian Turner (USA) as a member of the American armed forces wanted to get to know the Iraqi people and wrote about it. The two of them are on different sides of the conflict, one as a soldier carrying out orders, the other as a refugee from violence. Geert Buelens will be hosting.
21.30 hrs
Poetry Special: Jan Eijkelboom: ‘I was there and I wasn’t’
During this tribute to Jan Eijkelboom at the fortieth Poetry International Festival, there will be an opportunity to hear excerpts from his Dutch version of Omeros, as well as the work of other poets translated by him. Typically, Eijkelboom translated the famous epic by Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott line by line, and began Omeros without knowing where it would end. As part of the programme a number of posthumous poems by Eijkelboom will be read for the first time. The evening will be presented by the radio producer Wim Brands.
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20.00 hrs
Poetry Reading - Martin Mooij’s Choice
He is the man who put Poetry International on the map worldwide. For the fortieth Poetry International Festival Mooij has invited Kazuko Shiraishi (Japan), who thirty years ago had a great impact on him with her book Seasons of Sacred Lust. He has also invited Bei Dao (China) and Maura Dooley (Great Britain).
21.30 hrs
Rutger Kopland 75
Rutger Kopland will be celebrating his 75the birthday at the Poetry International Festival. Various Dutch and foreign poets have drawn inspiration from his work and will be presenting the results on this evening. Kopland himself, with saxophonist and clarinettist Martin Tervoort, will be presenting poems from To the Border Country. Sounds from the North 2. This audio book will also be launched during this programme devoted to Kopland. Afterwards there will be a screening of the documentary Rutger Kopland, De Taal van het verlangen (The Language of Longing).
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20.00 hrs
Poetry Reading
Tua Forsström (Finland), Gerrit Kouwenaar (Netherlands), Henrik Nordbrandt (Denmark)
21.30 hrs
'Kijk, het heeft gewaaid' Look how windy it's been
'Kijk, het heeft gewaaid' launches an anthology of poems from the last 40 years of the festival and rounds up the festival.
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small auditorium
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20.00 hrs
Poetry Special: Bits of Poetry
Mapping the shifting landscape of digital poetry. Hosted by Yra van Dijk and Jan Baeke.
21.30 hrs
Poetry Reading
Mourid Bargouthi (Palestine), Yang Lian (China), Nachoem M. Wijnberg (Netherlands)
19.00 hrs
Poetry Talk - Poetry and Art
A Poetry Talk about the visual arts and poetry. This year, at various points in the foyer, you will find visual art works and poetry inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s The White Box. Kamiel Verschuren will also be looking back at three years’ issues of NewCanvas©Poetry&Art.
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20.00 hrs
Cruel Joy. Claus, Flanders and Love - premiere
'Claus' life was never harmonious', explains director John Albert Jansen. In this study of Claus’ turbulent life, various fellow-poets, family members and other people close to him create a striking personal picture of the elusive polymath. The film will be premiered at the Poetry International Festival.
A trip through Claus' beloved Flanders using his poems as a guide.
21.30 hrs
Poetry Reading
featuring Arjen Duinker (Netherlands), Sigitas Parulskis (Lithuania) and Piotr Sommer (poland), hosted by Tsead Bruinja.
22.45 hrs
The Auden Landscape
documentary
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20.00 hrs
Le mot juste
Translators have been asked to give a short talk based on a poem they have translated. They will discuss the problems they encountered during the translation process and how they solved them. With Maghiel van Crevel, Karol Lesman and Tsead Bruinja, and Lisette Keustermans. Host: Erik Menkveld.
21.30 hrs
Brockway Prize
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22.45 hrs
Rutger Kopland, The Language of Longing
Documentary
20.00 hrs
C. Buddingh'-Prize
C. Buddingh' Prize
The C. Buddingh' Prize for new poetry in Dutch is awarded to the best poetry début of the previous year. The C. Buddingh' Prize jury for 2009 comprises Wim Brands, Hugo Brems and Janita Monna. They have nominated the first collections of Mischa Andriessen, Martijn Benders, Johanna Geels and Tom van de Voorde. They will be in this special programme devoted to the prize. In the course of the programme the eventual winner will be announced.
21.30 hrs
Poetry Reading
Featuring Luke Davies (USA), Valzhyna Mort (Byelorussia
/USA) and L.F. Rosen (Netherlands).
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20.00 hrs
Poetry Reading
Vera Pavlova (Russia/USA), George Szirtes (Hungaria) and Matthew Sweeney (Great Britain). Host: Tsead Bruinja.
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tuin café floor
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16.00 hrs
Poetry in the Afternoon - School of Poetry/Gerrit Komrij
Onno Blom will be talking to Gerrit Komrij, poet, ex-Poet Laureate of the Netherlands and founder of the Poetry Club on the state of affairs in contemporary Dutch poetry. How can prizes, competitions, festivals and educational programmes promote poetry? Is enough poetry being read and published? This afternoon has been initiated by www.schoolderpoëzie.nl
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16.00 hrs
Poetry in the Afternoon - Luke Davies/Michael Brennan
Luke Davies will be interviewed by Micheal Brennan, poet and editor of the Australian domain of Poetry International Web.
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16.00 hrs
Poetry in the Afternoon - Launch Tirade 428
Whereas in times gone by translation was a step on the road to mastery, today’s translator offers us a window on the world. The magazine Tirade has asked 26 translators to reveal all, since they are heroes, magicians and ambassadors. The result will be presented on LIRA Day, celebrating literary translation. In the programme Jeroen van Kan will be talking to a number of translators about their craft and the Dutch translation climate.
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16.00 hrs
Poetry in the Afternoon - 20 years Tiananmen-square
In June 2009 it will be twenty years since the ruthless suppression of student protest against the Communist regime in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The images of the 'unknown tank man' are etched into the global memory. What impact did the event have on the writing and publication of Chinese poetry in general? And to what extent did this influence the work of Bei Dao, who has lived and worked in exile since the revolt. And that of Yang Lian, who grew up in Beijing but was abroad during the protest? These questions will be put to them by Maghie van Crevel, professor of Chinese language and literature.
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16.00 hrs
Poetry in the Afternoon - results Translation workshop
Two translation workshops have been organised for festival poets: one devoted to the poetry of L.F. Rosen, the other to the work of the Lithuanian Sigitas Parulskis. For four mornings of the festival participants will be translating work by these poets into their own language. You will hear the results of the two translation workshops during this Poetry Afternoon.
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