13 Pearson St
Thu 1 Oct · 19:00
Swedish poetry returns to the European Poetry Festival! This Camarade event features new collaborative readings and performances, made for the night, celebrating visiting Swedish poets, Jörgen Gassilewski and Anna Hallberg. Alongside their solo readings and new works made with local poets, multiple pairs of poets will present new live literature in the literary and experimental tradition. Hosted in one of London’s most brilliant venues, this will be a brilliant night to kick off the 2026 winter edition of the European Poetry Festival. Featuring: Jörgen Gassilewski and Xelis de Toro Anna Hallberg and Mary Paterson Tom Jenks and SJ Fowler Andra Simons and Ivor Kallin Julia Rose Lewis and Annie Katchinska Alex Murphy and Petra Pálkovácsová Patrick Cosgrove and Richard Marshall Cat Paronjan and Caitlin Nugent This event will see the London launch of Tom Jenks and SJ Fowler’s collaborative conceptual poetry collection 2001 Proverbs from Kingston University Press. www.stevenjfowler.com/proverbs This is the eighth Swedish poetry celebration for the European Poetry Festival following events in 2025, 2024, 2022 and 2021, as well events (pre-festival formation) in 2017, entitled Fiender, and in Stockholm and Malmo. During the pandemic in 2020, a special collaborative poetry film was commissioned for the festival with Swedish poets too Here… Free entry and no tickets needed.