Take a seat at the main reading of poets Radmila Petrović and Hannah K Bründl. This is the moment to get to know both the poetry and the person behind it.
Radmila Petrović (1996, SRB) is an award-winning Serbian poet at a young age, who believes there is no place for cowards in literature. In bold and often humorous poems, she breaks taboos around sexuality, rural mentality, and cultures of violence. A longing for a different world and a different kind of youth is often present in her work.
Hannah K Bründl (1996, AUT) is a promising voice in the Austrian poetry scene, writing socially critical and formally free poetry. You can sense her background as a theatre maker when her stanzas unfold like scenes playing out before your eyes. Her experimental detours lead you past unexpected figures before returning to themes such as power structures and violence against women.
Host Jelle van Riet opens the main reading with a short introductory conversation. After that, both poets will read from their own work, sharing a personal selection of brand-new poems, their response to the festival theme, or a surprising gem from their oeuvre.
Lotte Lentes, translator of Bründl’s poems, will present a live reading of a selection of her poems in Dutch translation during this programme.
