The First World War and poetry
A hundred years ago the First World War not only shook up political landscapes the world over, it also led to a collapse of world pictures, models of reality and forms of expression. On 9 June 2014, in the Academy of Arts in Hanseatenweg, the 15th poesiefestival berlin will be looking at how poetry reflects the war, contrasting the approach to the primal catastrophe of the Twentieth Century in poetry from more than twenty of the countries involved and in the work of contemporary poets from six countries, including Geert Buelens (Belgium), Jacques Darras (France), Vörös István (Hungary), Antony Rowland (England), Sergej Moreino (Latvia), and Xaver Römer and Julia Trompeter (Germany).