“If you learn a poem by heart, it becomes part of you forever.”
With that idea at its core, spoken word icon Babs Gons launched Hardop! during her time as Poet Laureate of the Netherlands, championing the idea that declamation is a skill anyone can learn.
New to it? Declamation is the art of reciting a poem from memory, with close attention to performance and delivery. In this program, a group of pre-selected participants, joined by Ukrainian poet Iya Kiva, each choose a poem that inspires them and bring it to life on stage as convincingly as they can. Which lines set their hearts racing? What is it about these poems that moves them so deeply?
Discover new poetry through its most compelling ambassadors: the readers themselves.
