poetry
Scotland: address to haggis and Europe
25 January 2012 marks the 253rd birthday of Robert Burns, the most famous Scottish bard. Supermarkets all over are going haggis-crazy. Haggis is delicious, but not for the faint hearted. Recipe
poetry, recipe, scotland, food, united kingdom, edinburgh, yum nyam
Obituary: Vaclav Havel, master of peace
The dissident, thespian and president, who was a symbol of change in the 1989 velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, died on 18 December at the age of 75 after a serious illness. Homage to a European master of peace, as a three-day mourning period officially begins on 21 December
poetry, literature, vaclav havel, euweek, human rights, prague spring, prague
Montreal international poetry prize 'for poets by poets'
Poetry is enduring, if not a deep freeze, at least a hard frost. Austerity measures across Europe and Canada have led to severe cuts in arts funding. Amidst the scrabble to fund prizes whose state subsidies have been slashed, a brand new award has emerged on a different funding model, with the winner to scoop 50, 000 Canadian dollars on 15 December
poetry, prize, writers, quebec, canada, nobel price, nobel literature prize
Spanish poet Martin Lopez-Vega: ‘Choose between culture and commerce’
Looking out over Madrid’s Retiro park, the Spanish poet and translator ponders over his literary concerns and gives us his own brief synopsis of the current poetry scene
Zaher Rezai: dead after eight kilometres of illegal immigration
In December 2008, the 13-year-old died under the wheels of a lorry after trying to evade Italian immigration officials. A year on, artist Gianluca Constantini's cartoon strip tells the story
poetry, venezia, afghanistan, comics, gianluca costantini, human rights, travel
'The Constitution in Verse': Brussels 'city poets' slam EU
'So the European Union doesn’t have a political constitution? Let’s at least give it a poetic one!' 50 authors have spent months putting the finishing touches to new articles in the form of alternative and critical citizens’ verse. Close-up on an initiative from Brussels which began in January 2008
poetry, european institutions, writers, constitution, european constitution, politics, art
Vjollca Dibra on being a young poetess in pre-war Kosovo
The thirtysomething works at OSCE logistics in Pristina when I meet her in late 2007, four months before Kosovo declares independence from Serbia. Who you might brand your average blonde, bespectacled working mother-of-two is also one of Kosovo's youngest recognised female poets
poetry, literature, nato, pristina, brunch, independence, war
Love story across Bucharest, Bolzano, Berlin and Budapest
24-year old Nurith's memories as she embarks on a turbulent road trip across Europe, her wanderlust taking her from one love affair to the next. This abridged version of the article won Germany's 2009 Youthreporter award, ‘Verliebt in Europa’ (‘In Love With Europe’)
Sexy EU election candidates from France to Romania via Lithuania
It's European election time again. As per usual there are some 'special' candidates hoping to win a seat. In 2004, a French orchestra conductor, a British actor, a Czech cosmonaut and even a Lithuanian hockey player became MEPs. What does the 2009 edition have in store for us? Featuring Elena Basescu, Barbara Matera and Donala Meiželytė-Svilienė
Obituary: alphabets, butterflies and Inger Christensen
Why learn Welsh? They all speak English anyway. Why learn unpronounceable Flemish, impossible Finnish, self-assertive Catalan or miniscule Danish? But when the Danish experimental poet died on 2 January 2009 in Copenhagen, a loser language lost its most beautiful voice
poetry, denmark, literature, flemish, copenhagen, writers, death
Italian poet Pasolini, rage and Sarajevo
Sometime between 1 - 2 November 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed. He became a vehicle for peace messages during the Poetry International Festival held in Sarajevo from 3 - 5 October 2008
Blogging Kosovo, Erasmus and poetry
Existential crises in Berlin, self-critical French and new nation states - the best of our babelblogs this fortnight
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