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SEPTEMBER 25th-27th

COPENHAGENINTERNATIONALPOETRYFESTIVAL2015

FRIDAY LYSE NÆTTER @ REVERSE

Concert The Cowdy Custards17.00

20.00

23.00

18.30–

20.00

REVERSE opening

DJ Møllegades boghandel

Concert Martin Rude (DK)

ReadingsCia Rinne (FIN)Lars Skinnebach (DK)Yoko Tawada (DE/JAP)Aleksandr Skidan (RUS)Mónica de la Torre (MEX/US)Caroline Bergvall (FR/NO)

ReadingsCaspar Eric (DK)Mira Gonzalez (US)Ariana Reines (US)

MØLLEGADE / STREET LITTERATURHAUS / SALEN

Slagtryk presentsLiv Nimand Duvå (DK)Emilie Bessing (DK)Oskar Sjøgren (DK)Ingrid Nymo (DK)Rasmus Varnich Blumensaat (DK)

22.00–

23.00

SATURDAY

17.15–

19.00

18.00–

19.00

16.00–

17.00

Dinner

Concert SPY IN THE MESS (DK)

DJ Diskantlyd

ReadingsJosefine Graakjær Nielsen (DK)Frøydis Sollid Simonsen (NO)Shadi Angelina Bazeghi (DK)Cecilie Lind (DK)

Panel event / Multilingual poetryUljana Wolf (DE)Cia Rinne (FIN)Eugene Ostashevsky (RUS)Yoko Tawada (DE/JAP)Caroline Bergvall (FR/NO)Moderator Martin Glaz Serup (DK)

ReadingsUljana Wolf (DE)Cia Rinne (FIN)Eugene Ostashevsky (RUS)Yoko Tawada (DE/JAP)Caroline Bergvall (FR/NO)

ReadingsMaja Lee Langvad (DK)Mónica de la Torre (MEX/US)Elaine Feeney (IR)

LITTERATURHAUS / SALEN LITTERATURHAUS / CAFE

19.00–

20.00

20.00–

21.30

21.45–

22.45

23.00

24.00

ReadingsRozalie Hirs (NL)Aleksandr Skidan (RUS)

ARK BOOKS

SUNDAY

15.30–

16.15

16.00–

17.00

14.30–

15.30

ConversationAriana Reines (US) & Andreas Amdy Eckhardt-Læssøe (DK)

Geir Gulliksen & Martin Glaz Serup I SAMTALE OM POESI OG FORTOLKNING(in Danish / Norwegian)

ReadingShadi Angelina Bazeghi (DK)Josefine Graakjær Nielsen (DK)Geir Gulliksen (NO)

ReadingLars Skinnebach (DK)Ann Jäderlund (SE)

ReadingAleksandr Skidan (RUS)Eugene Ostashevsky (RUS) Mónica de la Torre (MEX/US)

ConversationMira Gonzalez (US) & Caspar Eric (DK)

Electroacoustic performance Rozalie Hirs (NL)

Home Poetry Elaine Feeney (IR)Maja Lee Langvad (DK)

MØLLEGADE / OTHER LITTERATURHAUS / SALEN ARK BOOKS

16.30–

17.30

17.45–

18.30

18.00–

19.00

Dinner19.00–

20.00

20.00–

21.00

21.00

Dinner

ReadingsMaja Lee Langvad (DK)Mónica de la Torre (MEX/US)Elaine Feeney (IR)

LITTERATURHAUS / CAFE

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Ann Jäderlund is a Swedish poet, author and playwright. She has published twelve col-lections of poetry, her latest one, Vad hjälper det et människa om hon häller rent vatten over sig i alle sine dagar, was described by the Swedish critic Amelie Björck as a pallet of complex feelings – of anger, despair, aggression, longing and doubt – where thoughts around the death drive are questioned and contradicted. Jäderlund asks herself in an interview: “how does one capture the essence of life in language?” Often she’s been praised as an outstanding poet that manages exactly that.

Photo: Ulla Montan

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RUS)

Ariana Reines works in multiple media: she is both a poet, playwright, performance artist, translator and blogger. In Reines’ poetry, she is always experimenting with poetic structures while wittily including a lot of cultural references such as Leonard Cohen, cheap Camembert, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Richard the Lionheart. Her 2008 poetry collection, Coeur de Lion just appeared in a Danish translation by An-dreas Amdy Eckhardt-Læssøe who will in-terview her at this year’s festival.

Photo: Andrew Kenower

ARIANA REINES (US)

The French-Norwegian poet Caro-line Bergvall works across languages, media and art forms – and many of her projects deal with multilingual poetics, feminisms and issues of cul-tural belonging. Many of her texts also exist as performance pieces. For instance, her latest project DRIFT was both a book exploring different forms of drifting – at sea and between lan-guages – and a performance in col-laboration with percussionist Ingar Zach.

Photo: Margarida Malarkey

CAROLINE BERGVALL (FR/NO)

Last year, Caspar Eric’s debut poetry collection 7/11 appeared. Along with the theme of having to cope with the fear of being out-dated, the book is notable for its active use of hashtags. His latest book NIKE, a long email/poem to an ex-girlfriend, is a reflection upon living with spasticity. In its portrayal of interactions between other people and the I, the book offers a critical view on the perception of the disabled body. Caspar Eric has also translated Mira Gonzalez’ I will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together into Danish.

Photo: Viktoria Wendel Skousen

CASPAR ERIC (DK)

Cecilie Lind is a Danish poet who graduated from the Danish Writer’s School, Forfatterskolen, in 2013. Since 2010, she has published two books of poetry, Ulven åd min eye-liner and Dughærget pupil accelererer tusmørket. Her third book, Strunk, just published, is a long poem that em-broiders onwards, restlessly and relentlessly in a tone best described as gurlesque. Lind’s poetry is tumultuous, rhyth-mic, cascading, delicate and brutal at the same time, like tumbling down three flights of stairs in a patrician mansion.

Photo: Lærke Posselt

CECILIE LIND (DK)

CASPAR ERIC (DK)

Is speaking, writing, breath-ing different languages be-ing multiple personalities? In her poetry, Cia Rinne ex-plores the sonorous aspect of language, the homo-phone qualities of different languages, stripping the words of their usual context so they become something other than mere means of communication. Her publi-cations of visual, aural and conceptual poetry include archives zaroum (2008), notes for soloists (2009) and the project sounds for solo-ists. With Danish photogra-pher Joakim Eskildsen, she has made the documen-tary project The Roma Jour-neys (2007).

Photo: Joakim Eskildsen

CIA RINNE (FIN)

Elaine Feeney is considered a leading part of political contemporary Irish writers. She has published three collections of poetry: Indiscipline (2007), Where’s Katie? (2010, Salmon) and The Radio was Gospel (2013, Salmon). Her work is just as strongly ironic, dry and provocative on the page as it is when read aloud. Carrying you through global cultural and social changes from the perspectives of the smallest minds, in the smallest towns in Ireland or anywhere else. Though her work offers limited joy, its wet and cold settings are not without objects of resilience and comfort: the odd whiskey or hot-water bottle.

ELAINE FEENEY (IR)

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EUG

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“Did you know that at least five species of mantis reproduce by cloning themselves? Which means they haven’t had sex in over a million years? Things could be worse.”Norwegian poet and drawer Frøydis Sollid Simonsen’s work can be de-scribed as humouristic, non-pretentious fragments of thoughts, where per-sonal issues are woven into a fabric of scientific facts. Her debut Hver mor-gen kryper jeg opp fra havet (2013) was recently published in Danish and was called a “strong study in heartbreak and biology.” Besides performing at REVERSE, Frøydis has also made the poster for this year’s festival.

Photo: Tove Anita Olsen

FRØYDIS SOLLID SIMONSEN (NO)

Norwegian author and publishing editor, Geir Gulliksen, made his debut in 1986 and has written several poems, essays, plays, novels and children’s books since. In his latest book of poetry, Ung trost klokken fem om mor-genen i en brusende alm. Et dikt fra januar til september, he writes about the big ques-tions in life from a bird’s perspective. Gulliksen is one of Norway’s most influential writers, and his poetry is observing, emotional, reflective and highly addictive. In 2014 he received Aschehougprisen for his overall literary work.

Photo: Siv Dolmen

GEIR GULLIKSEN (NO)

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Lars Skinnebach is a Danish poet. He won the Montana Literature Prize in 2009 and has published five books of poetry, as well as collaborative works and music. His latest book is Øvelser og ritu-elle tekster and focuses on the transformative, magical potential of writing through repetition, see-ing the poem as a self-enclosed habitable biosphere. His work has long been concerned with the climate crisis – Klimakrisen is also the name of his band. Since 2006 he has taught at the Danish Writ-er’s School, Forfatterskolen.

Photo: Søren Solkær Starbird

LARS SKINNEBACH (DK)

Maja Lee Langvad is a strong voice in Danish norm critical liter-ature. Her books are conceptual works on transnational adoption, which open up a major debate on nationality, adoption, integra-tion amongst other themes. For instance, her latest book HUN ER VRED (SHE IS ANGRY) is a long list of sections starting with the phrase “Hun er vred” followed by reasons for the anger of the adoptee I of the text related to the adoption.

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Meet the poet as avatar, as writer, as translator, as eraser. Writing with dark humour, Mexican poet and translator Mónica de la Torre’s poetry explores our constructions of identity – the multi-vocal, multi-situation-al self within society – and the instability of these identities. Her poetry collections include Public Domain (2008), Talk Shows (2007) and the chapbooks Four and The Happy End. De la Torre is an editor of BOMB Magazine and has coedited the bilingual anthology Reversible Monu-ments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (2002).

Photo: Bruce Pearson

MÓNICA DE LA TORRE (MEX/US)

“Composing music and writing poetry are very closely related for me. I play with the material, with words, sounds, meanings, notes.” Dutch poet and com-poser, Rozalie Hirs has published five books of experimental lyric poetry that examine the acts of listening and reading. Some of her poems are digital litera-ture – i.e. the moving Family Tree which changes by wind or gravity movement made by the reader’s cursor, allowing the reader to explore different ways of talking about family. She also composes modern classical mu-sic, mixing traditional instruments with electronic sounds.

Photo: Marco Borggreve

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Martin Glaz Serup is a Danish poet, literary critic and editor. His latest book of poetry is Rom-erske nætter (Roman Nights), and his dissertation, Relationel poesi was published in 2013. He is a co-founder of the literary journal Apparatur and the blog collective Promenaden, and has long worked in the intersec-tion between poetry, theory, new media, and collaborations with poets from around the world. Therefore, he is an obvi-ous choice for moderator of our debate on multilingual poetry.

Photo: Thomas Trane Petersen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek

MARTIN GLAZ SERUP (DK)

Since 2011, Slagtryk has published Danish poetry and short prose in text, sound and occasionally in Technicolor. At LYSE NÆTTER, Slagtryk presents five upcoming authors, writing within the field of two interesting and intersect-ing tendencies right now – the everyday and the politi-cal. Look forward to readings by Emilie Bessing, Oskar Sjøgren, Liv Nimand Duvå, Rasmus Varnich Blumensaat og Ingrid Nymo. www.slagtryk.dk

SLAGRTYK – TIDSSKRIFT FOR DIGTE OG KORTPROSA

Uljana Wolf is a German poet and translator living and teaching in New York and Berlin. She works with different languages intertwining in her poetical practice and this is one of the things, which makes her poetry playful and political at the same time. In a reflection on moving back and forth between two places and languages, New York and Berlin, she has said that the “ground where lan-guage becomes slippery” is the aspect of multilinguality, which interests her most as a poet.

ULJANA WOLF (DE)

When are we at home in our language? What happens when we’re not – can our “clumsiness” invent new words and meanings? In a multilingual and -cultural world where “home” isn’t necessarily one specific place, the Japanese poet and novelist Yoko Tawada’s work the-matizes something many of us might feel: alienation as a mode of being – feeling at home in the strange. Ta-wada’s curiosity towards the space between language and sound and her talent for making visible the invisible in our everyday language is just thrilling.

Photo: Yves Noir

YOKO TAWADA (JAP)

Andreas Amdy Eckhardt-Læssøe has translated Coeur de Lion by Ariana Reines into Danish. He is going to in-terview her at this year’s festival. Eckhardt-Læssøe is a poetry editor at Atlas Magazine, and an editor at Trappe Tusind, a Danish journal on comparative literature. He studies comparative literature at The University of Co-penhagen.

Photo: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan

ANDREAS AMDY ECKARDT-LÆSSØE (DK)

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The Danish singer-songwriter, Martin Rude, invites us into a universe of inti-macy and intensity. His style is raw, dusty, dreamy and mild all at once. The 30’s delta blues and the American Folk Scene are inspirations for his style, and one can hear resonances from Woody Guthrie’s political song writing and stories, Skip James and Robert Johnsons heartbreak-ing blues, as well as a kinship with con-temporary names such as Fleet Foxes and Iron & Wine. The songs, however, are Rude’s own, and are played with origi-nality and authenticity.

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