Thursday 14 September

• • Welcome in the garden!

    7 PM

    A warm welcome in the garden with music, food and drinks.
  • Opening Night

    8:30 PM

    Kick off! Meet our curators and our international guests!
  • DJ Mr. Winter

    9:30 PM

    Bar and music in the garden.
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Friday 15 september

• • Poetry Revue

    11 AM and 2 PM

    School program (private)
  • A Letter to my hometown

    7:30 PM

    Three writers will share their stories, each with a letter to their hometown.
  • My Language is under Arrest

    7:30 PM

    What if our voices are imprisoned?
  • A Poetics of Dreams

    9 PM

    A hallucinatory evening about the lyrical annotation of dreams.
  • Everyone’s trans, now what?

    9 PM

    What if the majority of humanity is trans*?
  • Kiss!

    9 PM

    Poetry intertwines with Music to take you on a Kissing ride!
  • Under the Poetree – Talent Showcase

    10 PM

    Discover new talent to perform under the oldest tree at the festival - Under the Poetree, a talent showcase with an open call.
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Saturday 16 september

• • Poezië Community

    1:30 PM

    Young adult program with Bahram Sadeghi.
  • Bookmarket

    2 PM

    Bookmarket / garden open
  • Zus ‘n Zo Voorleesclub

    3 PM
  • BookClub

    4:30 PM

    Met Merel Wildschut
  • Translation Workshop

    4:30 PM

    An afternoon translating “The Things We Ate”, a story by Kit de Waal with Jenny Mijnhijmer.
  • The Life Library of Helon Habila

    5 PM
  • Roots!

    6 PM

    What literature did you come across as a child or young adult?
  • Going of Age

    7:30 PM

    How can we explain the lack of representation of older people in fiction stories?
  • A Collapse of Time

    7:30 PM

    Poets and makers share their mourning methods.
  • The Things People Say to Me

    7:30 PM

    Travis Alabanza and Naeeda Aurangzeb in conversation, led by Sorab Roustayar.
  • Who Sampled That?

    9 PM

    Four poets perform works in which they sample the words or styles of writers who inspired them.
  • Hand in Glove: On Protest!

    9 PM

    Why protest matters in our societies.
  • Revolutionary Folktales

    9 PM

    Writers and poets wrote folk tales and short stories with a revolutionary twist
  • Thrills & Chills

    10 PM

    Closing event in the garden with music, beers and memories.
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