Poetry International Festival Rotterdam Netherlands June 2012

This is mid-way through but still time to see great poets.


For the 43rd year in a row, the Poetry International Festival:  this year's theme is the very geek friendly unfinished and incomplete poetry.

The festival will run from the 12 to 17 June 2012.

Line up includes poet and geek favourites:


Chus Pato from Galicia in Spain, Croatian-born poet Tomaž Šalamun (from Slovenia), Indian poet K. Satchidanandan and B. Zwaal from the Netherlands. And so many more. Thank you to our friend Tsead Bruinja for alerting us to this one!

More information here on a great site that says a lot about all the poets too http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/festival/index/en

Chus Pato: muse as machine

an inner voice, we listen to this singular voice; we await orders, await instructions from this inner voice

but an internalized voice is made up of every written text, read by those eyes-voice, made up of all we've spoken of, of all that is not verbal (audible)

we await orders; is this how we write?

we say the poem is inspired
we listen to the inner voice (the poet's)
we await orders, instructions from this incarcerated voice, so inspired, of the poet

we thank the deity for the concordance between symbol and thing, between language and things

from Charenton translated from the Galego by Erín Moure

More on Chus Pato here http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/patoA.html at Shearsman who also sell a translation of this poem.