The name of the festival – IT
The name of this year’s edition of the festival, IT, refers both to the title of a book of poetry written by Czesław Miłosz published 25 years ago and its opening poem. In the phreases of IT, the old poet makes a poignant confession about the impossibility of capturing certain aspects of reality.
Bringing European voices to Miłosz Festival
For three years now, Miłosz Festival has been a part of Versopolis – an international network of over forty poetry festivals from all across Europe. This partnerships allows us each year to present to our audiences international poets: a rich diversity of emerging voices of those who, having gained critical acclaim in their respective countries, still remain largely undiscovered by Polish readers. This year, we are thrilled to host the winner of TS Eliot poetry prize, British poet and performer Joelle Taylor.
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ABOUT MIŁOSZ FESTIVAL
The Miłosz Festival is one of the most important poetry festivals in Poland and the largest event of its kind in Central Europe, laureate of the prestigious EFFE Label by the European Festival Association in 2017. The festival's extensive programme features meetings with poets, both those starting out, as well as classics, as well as writing workshops, podcasts, poetry slams, artistic events bringing together art and literature, joint activities organised with publishing houses and magazines aimed at promoting of poetry, translating poetry and poetry criticism. The overarching objective of the festival is to promote Polish and world poetry.
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Programme of the 14th Miłosz Festival
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“Beginning with my streets” – announcing the guests of the Miłosz Festival!
Four festival days filled with meetings with authors, debuts, and concerts, as well as reading and commenting poetry. On the 8th – 11th of June this year, Krakow is once again slated to become the world’s capital of poetry, providing an opportunity to meet the most prominent Polish artists, including Adam Zagajewski, Ewa Lipska, Anna […] -
”I assure you, writing makes sense”
”It would be good if poetry books were discussed not only on the award-giving occasions” – said Marcin Sendecki, the winner of the Wisława Szymborska Award, on the last day of the Festival. Because in Poland we have really great poetry. W stands for Warsaw. Or for weaving memories. Or perhaps watching sights. On Saturday evening […]
