Poetry international festival
Le 11/06/2021
- Rotterdam
- 7,50 € par événement
Vendredi 11 juin à 22 heures : The Voices of Poetry - Acheter une place (en ligne)
Raymond Antrobus, Juana Adcock, Peter Verhelst, Samantha Barendson
At this unique event four international poets from the 51st Poetry International Festival will set the tone for the coming days with short readings and performances from work they have selected for the festival. Enjoy a succession of passionate voices exploring topical issues, straight from South Africa, the United Kingdom and Belgium. What you will hear is true!
Samedi 12 juin à 12 heures : Bernke Klein Zandvoort & Samantha Barendson - Acheter une place (en ligne)
The poetry of Bernke Klein Zandvoort and Samantha Barendson stays close to reality, but this same reality proves to be a very elusive phenomenon for both poets.
Klein Zandvoort aims her gaze at all that which we see around us, at the details of everyday life and the sometimes remarkable melting of phenomena and thoughts which occur to us upon looking around. For Barendson, the failure of memory and the need to reconstruct the facts and images of things that have been lost are key in her work. She tries in her poetry to avoid oblivion.
Bernke Klein Zandvoort brings an awareness to her readers, teaches them how to observe, what the effect of observation can be, whereas Samantha Barendson displays the struggle with things that are missing. Both poets write poetry which allows us to see how we feebly attempt to try and capture what we see, and what we would like to remember, in hopes of a deeper understanding and whilst realizing that perhaps, we cannot expect more of language than its understanding and its capacity to describe that hope.
