Miłosz Festival 2024

This year marks the 13th edition of the Festival and this special edition coincides with the proclamation of the Year of Czesław Miłosz by the Polish Senate on the 20th anniversary of the Nobel Prize Laureate's death.

The Festival brings the quality and variety of world poetry to its audiences while also promoting Polish literary heritage. It does so through its rich and diverse programme, which includes meetings with established as well as emerging authors, workshops on literary translation and criticism, poetry performances and slams and other interdisciplinary events connecting poetry and various art forms, collaboration with publishing houses and literary magazines in the popularization of poetry, poetry translation and poetry criticism.

At the core of the Miłosz Festival is the relationship between the poet and the reader. The event originated from the tradition of meetings of the poets of the East and West initiated by Czesław Miłosz, Adam Zagajewski and Wisława Szymborska. In the past, the Festival was attended by critically acclaimed and renowned poets, including: Adonis, Vera Burlak, Clare Cavanagh, Bei Dao, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Ashur Etwebi, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Seamus Heaney, Jane Hirshfield, Tyehimba Jess, Denise Riley, Ewa Lipska, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Michael Ondaatje, Robert Pinsky, Olga Sedakova, Zadie Smith, Gary Snyder, Wisława Szymborska, Dubravka Ugrešić, Ko Un and countless other authors from around the globe. The Festival also has been instrumental in bringing about over a hundred book publications of poetry, especially poetry in translation.