Minderbroedersstraat 22, 2000 Antwerpen & Rue Royale-Sainte-Marie 22a, 1030 Schaerbeek
The 2025 Transpoesie International Poetry Festival is taking place with the participation of Hungarian poet Sára Bíró, organized by the EUNIC Brussels cluster. The Liszt Institute Brussels has been a partner of the event since its inception. The festival, held between September 18-19, offers insights into various European cultures through poetry, with a focus on languages and linguistic diversity. This year, it brings the works of 17 poets to the Brussels and Antwerp literary audience and showcases contemporary European poetry through several public events.
For the 15th edition of TRANSPOESIE, EUNIC Brussels once again celebrates the European Day of Languages with a unique festival that brings poetry into the heart of the city. Since 2011, TRANSPOESIE has highlighted Europe’s extraordinary linguistic and cultural diversity by showcasing contemporary poets from across the continent and beyond, through public readings, creative encounters and striking displays of poems in Brussels’ metro, trams and buses.
Over the years, the festival has presented hundreds of poets and translations, reaching literary enthusiasts and millions of commuters, offering moments of reflection, discovery and connection in the midst of daily life. This landmark 15th edition invites audiences to once again pause, listen and celebrate the power of poetry to bridge languages, cultures and people.
The TRANSPOESIE website and the printed festival materials will contribute to raising awareness of the diversity of languages by providing a visible platform for their poetic expression.
From 18 to 21 September in Brussels and online: @Transpoesie and transpoesie.eu
Program:
18 SEPTEMBER Antwerp
13:00 - Poetic train travel interventions between Brussels Central and Antwerp
19:00-21:30 Transpoesie tours through Turbulent Times @ Letterenhuis, Minderbroedersstraat 22, 2000 Antwerp: Free Entrance
19:00 - Parallel Poetry Performances 1 (30’)
19:45 - Parallel Poetry Performances 2 (30’)
20:30 - Parallel Poetry Performances 3 (30’)
21:15 - Turbulent Finale of Unparalleled Poetics
19 SEPTEMBER Brussels
11:00- 13:00 - The Royal Galleries Saint-Hubertus - the Poet & the Public: get your own unique personalized poem
17:00- 19:00 - Transpoesie Poets Perform @ the Poetik Bazar, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, 22a Rue Royale Sainte-Marie, 1030 Brussels
20:00 - Closing Surprise for the True Transpoesie Turbulent Times Fanclub
19- 21 SEPTEMBER Brussels
Visit Exhibitor Transpoesie & EUNIC Brussels @ Poetik Bazar for poetry, books, Turbulent Times Translations and more
Sára Biró was born in 2001 in Târgu Mureș / Marosvásárhely (Romania). She is currently living in Budapest, studying Hungarian literature and theatre studies. Her poems have been published in several journals in Transylvania and Hungary (Műút, Szifonline, Látó, KULTter, Nincs, etc.). She is currently preparing to publish her book.
Sára Bíró