La Nit del Palau (The Night of the Palau) will once again be the major closing event of the festival Barcelona Poesia. It will be the 41st edition of the Barcelona International Poetry Festival. Seven poets from diverse origins and traditions will offer seven different ways of seeing and expressing the world , in an evening that aims to broaden the limits of the poetic experience. The event will take place at the Palau de la Música on Thursday, May 21, starting at 8:00 PM.
Participating are Susanna Rafart, a Catalan poet whose precise writing who has explored all the possibilities of the verse through formal rigor rethinking the powers of perception; Eduard Sanahuja, a Catalan poet who constructs a reflective and paradoxical work centered on the contradictions of life and the complexities of love; Miriam Reyes, a Galician poet residing in Barcelona who explores the body, desire, and questions of identity with a hybrid voice that combines writing and image; Adnan Özer, a Turkish poet who deploys a symbolic and meditative poetry rooted both in ancestral traditions and in the deepest forms of modernity; Mamta Sagar, an Indian poet in the Kannada language who articulates a textual proposal engages with social, gender, and linguistic inequalities; Koleka Putuma, a South African poet who addresses with power and clarity issues of race, gender, and identity from a contemporary and necessarily critical perspective, and Bewketu Seyoum, an Ethiopian poet in the Amharic language known for a work that combines humor, irony, and an attentive gaze at society to portray the deepest realities of his country.
The artistic direction is by Lucia del Greco, with a stage proposal conceived as a ritual sustained by a cosmic interplay of light and music
Tickets can be purchased in advance at this link. More information about the Barcelona Poesia festival can be found on the official website.
