The project aims to revive and regenerate the sense of poetry as a vital part of personal identity that can transcend across different age groups and generations while promoting poetry's role of linking personal and cultural identity on both national and European level. Three main activities will be organized by all three partners. The first, Poetry Relive, seeks to reinvent the perception of poetry to make it more widely perceived. First we will try to popularize poetry in the youngest and oldest generations (Poetry for all generations), secondly we will try to invent creative ways for promoting the reading of poetry (Promotion of poetry), and thirdly we will research connections of poetry and other arts (Poetry and other arts). The second activity is Poetry across borders and under this title we will translate poetry between European languages (at least 30 poetry books in translation published during the project and even more poetry published on the web as well as clips of poetry readings). The third activity is Poetry on stage – activities for presenting the most important contemporary European poets and projects connected with poetry on international poetry festivals and events (3 big international poetry festivals and at least 20 other poetry events in at least 7 European countries, with the participation of at least 70 poets from at least 20 European countries, including not only readings but many debates, seminars and other artistic events).By these activities we try to pursue a full spectrum of cultural roles and dimensions that poetry, if aptly promoted, can uniquely stand for in the broad realm of cultural processes vital for the well-being of the European society, contributing to cultural coherence over time and across different generation groups. The project´s chief objective is thus to reinvent the popular perception of poetry to make it more widely perceived as a creative medium which grasp complex and paradoxical patterns of contemporary experience.
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