Maud Vanhauwaert Maud Vanhauwaert, born in 1984, is a writer and performance artist. She studied Linguistics and Literature at the University of Antwerp and gained a Masters Degree from the Antwerp Conservatory. As a poet and actor, Vanhauwaert deliberately treads the impossible and difficult boundary between poetry and performance. She has published two collections of poetry; in 2011 her debut Ik ben mogelijk appeared and was awarded the Vrouw Debuut Prijs for 2011-2013 and early this year Wij zijn evenwijdig a ... more Maud Vanhauwaert (c) Jimmy Kets
Will Varley Will Varley (born in 1987 in London, Great Britain), a folk-anti-folk singer from Kent in the south of England, has been playing to sold-out audiences in London since the release of his third album. In early 2017 he toured the USA with Frank Turner. His success is not surprising. His songwriting shifts the boundaries of the ‘one man and a guitar‘ genre, with sound and expression a serendipity. His lyrics are comments on politics and society and a call to protest, but because of his screwball hum ... more Will Varley c_privat
Sara Ventroni Sara Ventroni (*1974, Rome, Italy) has taken part in many major national and international literary festivals. She won the first Italian poetry slam in 2001. She was a finalist for the Premio Antonio Delfini prize for her poetry collection "Nel Gasometro", which has been translated into numerous languages. Her texts are included in many anthologies (e.g. in “Europe speaks”, “Slam, antologia europea”, “Almanacco dello specchio”, “Bead on the tongue” and “Unique forms of continuity ... more
Mario Verandi The Argentinean Mario Verandi (1960, Buenos Aires) is a sound and media artist. He studied at the music academy of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), at the Phonos Electroacoustic Music Studio in Barcelona and at Birmingham University. His work is characterised by the exploration of the poetic and evocative potential of sounds and the incorporation of this in compositions, audiovisual installations and live performances. He has been, among other things, a scholarship holder of the ... more
Paul Vermeersch Paul Vermeersch (*1973 in Mississauga, Canada) lives as a poet in Toronto. In 1998, he founded the I.V. Lounge Reading Series and later published an anthology, The I.V. Lounge Reader (2001). His poems often tackle themes concerning forces that isolate man from his environment and from his fellow man. Childhood memories and scenes from family life provide him with a canvas for much of his work. Vermeersch is currently teaching creative writing at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, and he is t ... more
Michel Vézina Michel Vézina (*Rimouski, Quebec) is a poet, journalist, translator, columnist, literature chronicler for Radio Canada and an editor. He established himself as a clown in the Bérurier Noir circus group and is co-founder of the “Le Cochon souriant” street theatre group, for which, for more than six years, he wrote the scripts, staged the productions, performed, ate fire and sang. Together with the musician Vander, Vézina arranges entertainment for the “Dub et Litté” evening receptions. Publicatio ... more
Salvador Vidal The musician Salvador Vidal (b. 1952 Antella, Spain) studied clarinet in Valencia, Madrid, Nice and Vichy, among others with Guy Deplus. He was a member of various chamber orchestras with a repertoire covering all eras as well as a co-initiator of ensembles that breathed new life into the musical panorama in Spain, among them Eco-Grupo Instrumental, Nutar, Grupo Circulo and the Boehm Clarinet Quartet. He is also a sought-after studio musician and has taken part in recordings for radio stations i ... more
Arvis Viguls Arvis Viguls (born 1987 in Latvia) is a student at the Latvian Academy of Art and is a poet and translator and writes for a literary radio programme. He received the Poetry Days Prize Latvian Writers Union’s Annual Award for First Collection of the Year for his first collection of poems, Istaba. Last year he won the Anna Dagda’s Prize for the manuscript of his second collection, 5 am, which is forthcoming in 2012. Arvis Viguls ´translates poetry from the English (Walt Whitman), Spanish (Frederic ... more
Dirceu Villa Dirceu Villa (born in 1975 in São Paulo) is a translator of Ezra Pound and a reader of Ovid, Guido Cavalcanti and Baudelaire. He is currently working on a comparative study of Italian and English Renaissance poetry for his doctorate. Villa’s radical plurality is also reflected in his poetry, comprising narrative monologues, dramatic excerpts, sensual love lyrics and descriptive tours de force, always underscored by precision of rhythm, imagery and expression.In 2000 he won the Nascente prize for ... more
Lello Voce Lello Voce (*1957, Naples, Italy) lives and works in Treviso. He is a poet, performer and pioneer of the spoken word in Italy. He has an international reputation and has been a guest at literary festivals around the world. His poetry is a fusion of influences from sound poetry and hip-hop. He works regularly with musicians and video artists. Voce’s poems are based on the sound of the voice. At the same time, he defends in his work the view that “the rhythm of the voice and the depth of breath” d ... more
Lello Voce Lello Voce (born in 1957 in Naples, Italy) is one of the pioneers of European Spoken Word and introduced Spoken Music into the Italian Poetry Slam scene. He was the first author to bring out poetry comics, a genre that earned him the 2012 Napoli Prize. His texts have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Japanese, German and Arabic. Voce has published various books of poems and albums in collaboration with such artists as Frank Nemola and A. Salis. Together with Nanni Balestrini and Pao ... more Lello Voce c_Francesco Francaviglia
Joseph Vogl Joseph Vogl (born in 1957 in Eggenfelden) is Professor for Modern German Literature and Literature and Cultural Studies/Media at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Permanent Visiting Professor at Princeton University in the USA. The main focus of his research is on the poetologies of knowledge, meaning the interweaving of science and literature, and the history of danger and dangerousness in the modern age. Vogl is also the translator of key works of modern French philosophy by such writers a ... more Joseph Vogl c_Stephanie Kiwitt