Europe in Poems Grand Tour 12 A Journey Through the Young Poetry of Europe with Jan Wagner and Federico Italiano

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9 Europe in Poems 9 March 2019 29 / 30 August 2019 Grand Tour 1 Frankfurt / Main, Germany 7 Erlangen, Germany Fokus Lyrik Erlanger Poetenfest www.fokuslyrik.de www.poetenfest-erlangen.de A Journey Through the Young Poetry of Europe with Jan Wagner Paul Bogaert (Belgium) Federico Italiano () and Federico Italiano Federico Italiano (Italy) Dagmara Kraus (Germany) Nikola Madzirov (North Macedonia) Sinéad Morrissey (Ireland) Valzhyna Mort (Belarus / USA) Tomasz Różycki () Europe is alive and well — maybe not so much as Monika Rinck (Germany) Kārlis Vērdiņš (Latvia) regards its difficult politics, but all the more as Jan Wagner (Germany) Jan Wagner (Germany) a continent with a young and incredibly lively poetry scene. Witness the new anthology »Grand Tour«. Jan Wagner and Federico Italiano have collected the 7 May 2019 20 September 2019 polyphony of this lyrical cosmos on seven virtual 2 Brussels, Belgium 8 Lviv, Ukraine voyages through Europe. Now they are embarking on a journey to visit twelve literary places between Representation of the State of Hessen Lviv International Book & Literature Festival Brussels and Belgrade, Leukerbad and Lviv, Rome to the European Union www.bookforum.ua/en/litfest and Copenhagen. They will conduct readings www.hessen.de and discussions there with many poets represented Lidija Dimkovska (North Macedonia) in »Grand Tour«. The German Academy for Language Justyna Bargielska (Poland) Federico Italiano (Italy) and Literature thanks all collaborators, supporters Nora Bossong (Germany) Halyna Kruk (Ukraine) and partners who have made possible this vast Frédéric Forte (France) Miguel-Manso (Portugal) poetic exchange. Massimo Gezzi (Italy) Ulrike Almut Sandig (Germany) Federico Italiano (Italy) Jan Wagner (Germany) The reading tour begins in March 2019 and ends in September 2020. The exact event date, time of day and venue can be found on the respective websites. 15 May 2019 29 November 2019 3 Vienna, 9 Rome, Italy

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Grand Tour Christoph W. Bauer (Austria) Dan Coman (Romania) A Journey Through Federico Italiano (Italy) Federico Italiano (Italy) the Young Poetry of Europe Riina Katajavuori (Finland) Laura Pugno (Italy) Valérie Rouzeau (France) Endre Ruset (Norway) On behalf of the German Academy Andrei Sen-Senkov (Russia) Maria Stepanova (Russia) for Language and Literature Jan Wagner (Germany) edited by Federico Italiano and Jan Wagner 4 June 2019 4 Berlin, Germany 20–25 January 2020 Carl Hanser Verlag 10 Cologne, Germany 608 pages, € 36 German Translator’s Fund / Literary Colloquium Berlin Poetica 6 www.uebersetzerfonds.de www.poetica.uni-koeln.de

Alida Bremer (Germany) Tadeusz Dąbrowski (Poland) Sasha Dugdale (Great Britain) Federico Italiano (Italy) Marie Luise Knott (Germany) Erik Lindner (Netherlands) Marko Pogačar (Croatia) Luljeta Lleshanaku (Albania) Gregor Seferens (Germany) Helen Mort (Great Britain) Mustafa Stitou (Netherlands) Jan Wagner (Germany) Jan Wagner (Germany)

18–20 March 2020 7 / 8 June 2019 11 Gdansk, Poland 5 Belgrade, Serbia European Poet of Freedom-Festival Festival Krokodil www.europejskipoetawolnosci.pl www.krokodil.rs Tomica Bajsić (Croatia) Maria Barnas (Netherlands) Ben Clark (Spain) Anja Golob (Slovenia) Julia Fiedorczuk (Poland) Federico Italiano (Italy) Federico Italiano (Italy) Design: schunck Europe in Poems – Grand Tour Patrick McGuinness (Great Britain) Gonca Özmen (Turkey) www.deutscheakademie.de/en/europe-in-poems Ana Ristović (Serbia) Jan Wagner (Germany) Gábor Schein (Hungary)

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ker, Darmstadt 25 September 2020 12 Humlebæk near Copenhagen, Denmark 29 June 2019 6 Leukerbad, Switzerland Louisiana Museum of Modern Art www.louisiana.dk Leukerbad International Literary Festival www.literaturfestival.ch Ursula Andkjær Olsen (Denmark) Lone Hørslev (Denmark) Petr Borkovec () Federico Italiano (Italy) Claire Genoux (Switzerland) Pia Tafdrup (Denmark) Federico Italiano (Italy) Søren Ulrik Thomsen (Denmark) Deutsche Akademie Frances Leviston (Great Britain) Peter Urban-Halle (Germany) für Sprache und Dichtung Aleš Šteger (Slovenia) Jan Wagner (Germany) Alexandraweg 23 Jan Wagner (Germany) and others D-64287 Darmstadt www.deutscheakademie.de

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