29 March, 14–17
Zätasalen, ABF-huset, Sveavägen 41
Luzie Meyer (Berlin) with Vera V Almgren (Stockholm); Iman Mohammed (Malmö); Alice Notley (Paris); James Richards (Berlin); Marie Silkeberg (Stockholm); Isak Sundström (Stockholm) and Alex Franz Zehetbauer (Vienna)
Mint Poetry Festival transports us to a linguistic borderland, somewhere between fragility and entertainment. Meanwhile, day turns into night.
American poet Alice Notley makes her first visit to Sweden with a reading spanning a lifetime of writing. Also on stage are poets Marie Silkeberg, Iman Mohammed and author and musician Isak Sundström. The festival includes a newly written performance by artist Luzie Meyer in collaboration with composer Vera V Almgren, video work by artist James Richards, and a repertoire in a piano bar, teetering between the earnest and the absurd, by performance artist and vocalist Alex Franz Zehetbauer.
This year we will also be joined by Nord Books, who will sell an exclusive selection of books by the festival’s poets and artists.
Mint poetry festival is supported by the Swedish Arts Council and the Swedish Academy, and made in collaboration with ABF Stockholm
Graphic design Thomas Bush
Image: Still from James Richards, Radio at Night (2015)