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More than 50 meetings of the main programming stream, the OFF stream and accompanying events, 4 concerts and nearly 100 guests – this is what this year’s edition of the Krakow poetry celebration looks like in numbers. The Milosz Festival, the largest event devoted to contemporary poetry in this part of Europe, will take place […]

Simon Armitage, Saleh Diab, Ferida Duraković, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Elena Fanailova and Denise Riley are some of the most important names in the world of contemporary poetry, who will all attend the 8th edition of the Miłosz Festival in Krakow. The poets mentioned above have one more thing in common: volumes of their poetry will […]

The Helena Modrzejewska National Old Theatre, Be MICET Zone, Krzysztofory Palace, Alchemia Club, Krakow bookstores – these are just some of the places where poetry will reign between June 6th and 9th. The most interesting and exciting aspects of the work of contemporary poets will be the touched upon during meetings with authors, panel debates […]

Music has always had a special place in the programme of the Miłosz Festival. This year’s edition of one of the most important poetry events in this part of Europe will be no different. Between the 6th and 9th of June, you will have an opportunity to enjoy the Sejny Theatre Klezmer Orchestra performance with […]

Between the 6th and 9th of June, the Miłosz Festival will host exceptional poets from Poland and abroad. This year’s festival centre, the Helena Modrzejewska National Old Theatre, festival bookshops, cafés and clubs, where poetry will be the most important on these days – the poetic polyphony of our guests will be present in all […]

The organisers of the Miłosz Festival will ensure that Krakow becomes a hospitable place for contemporary poetry written in various languages. Without a space for linguistic diversity, our culture will stop developing – this will be the lesson for the audience of the author’s meetings and debates, as well as the participants of the poetry […]

The Miłosz Festival, the 8th edition of which will explore The Seizure of Power will once again make some room in the city space for experimental poetry. Stage, microphone, movement and voice, and above all, a sense of disagreement with the existing reality — all of these features will characterise this year’s OFF Stream at […]

During his lifetime, Czesław Miłosz — a citizen of Poland and of the world — was focused on opening Polish literature up to world literature. Thanks to the power of his international authority, he managed to get rid of the odium of the complex from the Polish language, and thanks to poetry, he made it […]

The coming 8th Miłosz Festival will host the most outstanding poets from around the world and, as always, will accurately refer with its title to the work of its eminent patron. Between June 6 and 9 Krakow will again become the centre of what is considered new and exciting in contemporary poetry. The Seizure of […]