The IIC Pretoria is participating this year in the most prestigious poetry festival “Poetry Africa”.
The Italian poet Claudio Pozzani will be in South Africa to participate in the “Poetry Africa” festival in three cities, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Durban, from 5 to 12 October 2024.
Saturday 5 Octobe, 19h00: Johannesburg – UJ Arts and culture Centre
Monday 7 October, 10H00: Bloemfontein – PACOFS
Tuesday 8 October, 19H00: Bloemfontein – PACOFS
Saturday 12 October, 12H00: Durban – Seabrooks Theatre
For more info: https://poetryafrica.ukzn.ac.za/
Claudio Pozzani is an Italian poet, writer, narrator, and musician whose poems have been translated and published in more than ten languages. In 1995 he created the Genoa International Poetry Festival, Parole Spalancate, the oldest and biggest poetry event in Italy of which he is still the director. In 2015, he co-founded the European platform Versopolis, which now includes thirty festivals. In 2001, he founded the Stanza della Poesia in Genoa. His published and recorded works include the CD/book (poetry and music) La Marcia dell’ombra, the anthology Spalancati spazi – Poesie 1995 – 2016, the DVD of the live reading-concert with the PoetOrchestra La realtà della speranza and the novels Kate et moi and Confessioni di un misantropo.