-Ryan van Winkle and Faruk Šehić in Skopje

Faruk Šehić

  27th October, 2010
MKC, Skopje
7pm

Poets Ryan van Winkle (Scotland/USA) and Faruk Šehić (Bosnia)  travelling direct from events in Belgrade will join hosts Xhabir Deralla and Kalina B Isakovska and local writers Jovica Ivanovski, Aleksandra Dimitrova, and Elizabeta Bakovska for an evening of poetry and debate. The writers will then be travelling on to Istanbul for Word Express's anniversary events.

You can read some of the Macedonian writers' work in English, French and German translation in the current issue of Transcript, Literature Across Frontiers's online magazine.


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'I like to use the languages of the various arts – literature, music, theatre...I think that is the spirit of the modern global era.'- poet Ivan Hristov spoke to SJ Fowler of 3AM magazine about the evolution of the contemporary Bulgarian poetry scene.

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Cosmin Borza discusses the work of Romania's 'Generation 2000' poets, including Radu Vancu and Claudiu Komartin in an essay at Asymptote.

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At the Sofia Poetics festival, which was organised by Word Express participant Ivan Hristov, Scottish based poet Ryan Van Winkle caught up with fellow festival guests SJ Fowler and Tomasz Rózycki. To hear Fowler and Rózycki discussing their work and reading some of their poetry, listen to the Scottish Poetry Library podcast here.

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