News
Martin Solotruk na Európskom festivale poézie v Londýne
03. 04. 2018
Európsky festival poézie prepája najrenomovanejších súčasných európskych básnikov a pozýva ich do Londýna spolupracovať, vystupovať a podeliť sa o svoje myšlienky a tvorbu s ostatnými kolegami a publikom. Na aktuálnom ročníku, ktorý sa uskutoční v termíne od 5. do 14. apríla 2018 v londýnskom Rich Mix Centre, bude mať svoje zastúpenia aj Slovensko – na podujatí vystúpi básnik Martin Solotruk, ktorý nedávno vydal svoju piatu básnickú knihu Metafyzická domácnosť I. V kooperácii s chorvátskym básnikom Damirom Šodanom vytvorí spoločné básnické performancie, ktoré obaja autori predstavia publiku v rámci projektu European Camarade (Európsky priateľ). more
Kniha roka - čitateľská anketa Knižnej revue
20. 03. 2018
Do konca marca je otvorené hlasovanie v ankete Kniha roka časopisu Knižná revue!
Ide o 27. ročník a anketu s najdlhšou tradíciou, kde čitateľky a čitatelia môžu hlasovať v kategóriách Kniha roka a Debut roka. more
Nikitin, Pospiš, Sillay a Gregušová nahrávajú v New Yorku výnimočný album
07. 03. 2018
Na jednej nahrávke spoja svoj vlastný hudobný rukopis s umením špičkových amerických inštrumentalistov a minulosť so súčasnosťou. Walt Whitman's Poetry Turns into Music je pracovný názov ambiciózneho hudobného projektu, ktorý pripravovali slovenskí hudobníci takmer jeden a pol roka. Teraz sú v New Yorku, kde popri nahrávaní albumu odohrajú aj niekoľko koncertov. more
Slováci v New Yorku nahrali unikátnu poctu Whitmanovi
06. 03. 2018
Ani po sto rokoch od smrti slávneho poeta Walta Whitmana neprestali jeho slová inšpirovať umelcov, čitateľov poézie a obdivovateľov hlbokého umenia. Walt Whitman' s Poetry Turns into Music, to je pracovný názov ambiciózneho hudobného projektu, ktorý pripravovali slovenskí hudobníci takmer jeden a pol roka. more
Kráľ / Kráľovná detských čitateľov 2018
11. 02. 2018
Knižnica pre mládež mesta Košice vyhlasuje voľbu Kráľa/Kráľovny detských čitateľov. Kandidáti absolvujú tri súťažné kolá, na základe ktorých sa vyberie panovník/panovníčka Kráľovstva kníh pre rok 2018. Súčasťou finálového kola bude aj vyhlásenie Kráľa/Kráľovny Sympatia 2018. more
Svitanie na lepšie časy v krajine outsideriek
25. 01. 2018
Pripomeňme si 136. výročie narodenia Virginie Woolfovej
Na začiatku príbehu bola otázka. Dlho ležala napísaná a nezodpovedaná v liste, neskôr ako pavučina visela vo vzduchoprázdne a vyše tri roky čakala na svoju odpoveď, pričom dúfala, že tá sa časom nájde aj sama, že sa vynorí ako ozvena. Ako možno zabrániť vojne? Virginia Woolfová, ktorej bola táto pomyslená otázka istým mužom adresovaná, sa vo svojej eseji Tri guiney pokúsila o konkrétnu odpoveď. Jej samotné dielo je vlastne onou dlho odkladanou odpoveďou, je zároveň akýmsi autorkiným pokusom, aj keď "od začiatku odsúdeným na neúspech... Tieto tri bodky označujú priepasť, bezodnú priepasť, ktorá nás oddeľuje a je taká hlboká, že som tri roky, ba ešte dlhšie sedela na svojej strane onej priepasti a uvažovala, či vôbec má zmysel pokúsiť sa cez ňu niečo povedať." more
Prekliaty básnik Laco Novomeský
22. 12. 2017
Pred niekoľkými rokmi čítali prekladatelia v budmerickom kaštieli ukážky svojich prekladov zo slovenskej literatúry do iných jazykov. Zvuk rôznych rečí znel ako dobre zladený orchester bez sólistu, ktorého melódia sa dá len tušiť. Potom zaznela báseň, z ktorej všeobecný dojem si dobre pamätám: publikum onemelo a v bezčasí, ktoré zavládlo, počúvalo hudbu slov nesúcu sa sálou rovnako bolestne priezračne ako hobojové sólo Mozartovho Requiem pod klenbou katedrály. Nikto tomu neveril. Je toto slovenský autor? more
Not To Be Alone / Ars Poetica 2017
21. 12. 2017
Linda Nagyová covered the international poetry festival Ars Poetica 2017 in a story released in the Christmas issue of Knižná revue [Book Revue Magazine]. more
Morning Blue Animal by Sylvia Geist selected in the readers‘ survey 2017 Book of the Year by the dai
16. 12. 2017
We consider it a great honor that the poetry collection Morning Blue Animal And Other Poems by Sylvia Geist has received attention in the Pravda reader's survey, 2017 Book of the Year. A selection from the works of the acclaimed German poetess was released by Ars Poetica in 2017 in translation by Martina Straková. more
Ján Smrek – poeta natus
16. 12. 2017
“I felt such joy that I jumped up on my desk. Whenever somebody got a package with poppy seed rolls from their parents’ house, I was the first one that they offered to share them with, because they knew that I didn’t have anyone to send me such titbits...” more
The opening of The Christmas Book
04. 12. 2017
Košice Youth Library has opened The Christmas Book, a cycle of motivational and entertaining events for children and youth devoted to all age groups of young readers year by year. more
The Club of Independent Writers Award goes to Mila Haugová!
29. 11. 2017
The Association of Slovak Writers Awards for the year 2016, which took place on November 29, 2017 in the Zichy Palace in Bratislava, ended on a triple triumph for the members of the Club of Independent Writers. The Slovak PEN Centre Prize was awarded to Ireney Baláž for the poetry collection Čas hmatu. The Club of Independent Writers Award went to Mila Haugová for her poetry collection Doe Looking at the Polaris. The annual Association of Writer Organizations of Slovakia Award went to Milan Richter for the book Kafka and Kafka, which contains two plays, Z Kafkovho pekloraja and Kafkov druhý život. more
Ars Poetica: When Poetry Both Uplifts and Makes You Laugh
18. 11. 2017
kultura.pravda.sk | November 18, 2017 | Vladimíra Gahérová
"They say that poetry can be found in the most unexpected of places. However, if you don't want to wait around for the muse to kick or for a moment of incidental rousing, you should feel free to actively seek it out yourself. Ars Poetica 2017 is a great option – it offers a concentrated selection of the best of both international and local poetry, all free of charge. This international poetry festival is starting this Thursday in Bratislava. Throughout eight days, it will present prominent poets accompanied by original VJ sets, recitals of original translations, concerts, dance performances, workshops and a special selection of films, all of them taking place around the capital." more
Ars Poetica Off Program
17. 11. 2017
Ars Poetica 2017 is accompanied by a rich off program, which will take place throughout the festival in the Lizst Pavillon section of the University Library in Bratislava. On Friday, we're hosting a roundtable session with several authors, while on Saturday, there will be a children's workshop dedicated to the creation of books run by the Amulet Studio, as well as a workshop of creative writing titled Bring Your Poem. We're also preparing a dance workshop titled Body and its Words and lead by Roberta Štěpánková, which will take place on Saturday between 10am and 4pm at V-klub. All the events included in the off program are free of charge. more
Give poetry a chance...
16. 11. 2017
Slovak Spectator | 15. Nov 2017 at 20:49 | Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská
The Ars Poetica 2017 festival offers foreign guests as well as local bards, with authors from the UK, Australia/Greece and Nigeria among them. more
Representatives of Slovak poetry at Ars Poetica 2017
15. 11. 2017
Ars Poetica 2017 will feature a number of local, Slovak poets, including the well-known representative of the contemporary older / middle generation of poets, Ján Štrasser, who has recently published a new book of collected poems. „His civil poetry has an irreplaceable role in our poetic tradition," says the festival director Martin Solotruk on Štrasser's contribution. He will present some of his poetry to the audience on Thursday, November 16, during the opening night of the festival, along with other poets, including Viktor Suchý, another of his Slovak poetry-writing contemporaries. more
Ars Poetica Open to All Who Want To Give Poetry a Chance
13. 11. 2017
The Ars Poetica International Poetry Festival is welcoming towards a wide audience and offers a wide spectrum of poetics and artistic experiences. It presents poetry, which comes in various forms of originality but is simultaneously open towards different types of people, mindsets and walks of life.
"The Ars Poetica International Poetry Festival is open to all who want to give poetry a chance to unexpectedly and incidentally pique their interest through an experience that they had no idea they might go through. It is about experiencing the beauty of that which seems like a mere word at first glance, but is in fact so much more: poetry; beauty as natural as an ordinary day," said poet and creative director of the Ars Poetica Festival Martin Solotruk. more
Award-winning performance poet Titilope Sonuga at Ars Poetica International Poetry Festival 2017
12. 11. 2017
Ars Poetica festival is currently celebrating fifteen years of its existence. Over the years, it has consistently delivered a thrilling experience of multi-genre fusion of art and poetry to a wide audience. This year, its stages will be graced by numerous outstanding poets, both from Slovakia and abroad. Poetry readings will go hand in hand with multimedia events and a rich off program. The main festival days will be followed by Ars Poetica Film, a selection of films, which will be screened in the Lumière Film Theatre over several days. more
Living poetry at the Ars Poetica International Poetry Festival
08. 11. 2017
Ars Poetica festival, taking place in Bratislava, is bringing forward an extraordinary experience of poetry in fusion with multiple genres. Thanks to the symbiosis of poetry with music, visual arts, theatre and other forms of art, you will get a chance to see it in a new light and witness the unique effect of art. Beauty and the depths of art await you on November 16 in V-klub, November 17 at A4 – space for contemporary art and November 18 in the SNG Berlinka Café. more
O festivale Ars Poetica v magazíne inBa
31. 10. 2017
Rozhovor Diany Mašlejovej s básnikom a riaditeľom festivalu Ars Poetica Martinom Solotrukom
"Už pätnásť rokov sa snažíme rozvíjať a udržať vysokú kvalitatívnu latku festivalu, ktorý si získal pevné miesto na mape popredných európskych festivalov poézie." more
