Sixteen poets from different countries of the world / day will participate in Page Break this year

The festival will feature 16 internationally recognized poets from different countries around the world. Page Break The opening will take place on April 23 at 18.00 Riga Art Space, where you will be able to meet all festival participants.

Poetry readings in the next two days Splendid Palace In the small hall.

April 24 Alvin Pans from Singapore, Gondza Ouzman from Turkey, USA and Ukraine Ilya Kaminsky, Maria Seville Parisa from Spain, Marianne Larsen from Denmark and Indian poet Sudzhata Bata, will participate in the reading. Latvia will be represented in this reading by Ingmar Balode and Tom Treiberg.

And on April 25, from 19.00 Anna Hallberg from Sweden, a poet of Zambian -born Kajo Genzonji from England, Marchin Sendeckis from Poland, Marges Tidira from Wales, Michael Augustine from Germany, Colombian poet Ramona de Hessus and Sabine Vina from France, and Latvian poet Ivars Ivars.

The festival culminates in April 26 at 19.00 when Splendid Palace The Great Hall will host the Festival’s closing poetry concert, featuring all festival participants, performing with a contemporary jazz group.

All festival events will be available free of charge, but on poetry readings and closing poetry concert cinema Splendid Palace Entrance will be with free invitations that can be received Ticket paradise Ticket distribution network and on the Internet.

Along with the festival, the poets will visit several schools in Riga, meet in discussions and participate in other events.

More information about the festival and full program available on the website www.pagebreeak.lvas well as on the festival account on the social communication site Facebook.

As part of the festival, the anthology of the festival will be published with the works of all authors and their translations in Latvian.